In Cameroon, President Paul Biya is expected to be a shoe-in for re-election this Sunday. Also, after a devastating attack that left over 100 dead in Somalia, al Qaeda-linked group al-Shabaab says more violence is to come. Meanwhile, Archbishop Desmond Tutu turns 80 this week, but is still hard at work in South Africa. And Germany finally hands back the skulls of 20 Namibians killed during a bloody colonial past.
An airport security officer in Namibia was arrested Saturday in connection with a suspicious package found at Windhoek airport that sparked an international security alert. The Munich-bound parcel turned out to be a fake used in security checks.
A suspected bomb on board an Air Berlin flight from Namibia was a security test to gauge aviation security measures, the German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Friday.
Namibian police have discovered a suspect laptop amongst luggage bound for Munich just a day after terrorism intelligence forced Germany to tighten security at airports and train stations. A terrorist attack on the country was said to be imminent.
“Babies” simultaneously follows four babies around the world, from birth to first steps. Drifting from the naturally grandiose vistas of Mongolia and Namibia to the urban enclaves of San Francisco and Tokyo, Balmes’s cameras reveal the universal curiosity that all young children share. A beautiful film that recalls, if it weren’t already obvious, that all babies look alike.
Namibia begins a second day of voting on Saturday in presidential and parliamentary elections in which the incumbent SWAPO party is expected to remain in power despite a challenge from a new breakaway party.
Russia's energy giant Gazprom finalised a one-billion-dollar deal with Namibian energy company Namcor to build a new power plant in the African country. The power plant would generate energy for both Namibia and South Africa.
