Namibia

Australian Researchers Say Botswana is Ancestral Home of Modern Humans

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior CorrespondentNovember 15, 2019

“It has been clear for some time that anatomically modern humans appeared in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago. What has been long debated is the exact location of this emergence and subsequent dispersal of our earliest ancestors,” Hayes told reporters. “We’ve been able to pinpoint what we believe is our human homeland.”

International News

Namibia Agrees to ‘Land Deal’ with Russian Billionaire

Global Information NetworkOctober 26, 2018

The Namibian government has leased four farms for 99 years to a company owned by a Russian billionaire.

International News

South African Women March Against Gender-Based Violence

Global Information NetworkAugust 10, 2018

Thousands of women and gender activists joined together on the first day of Women’s Month to protest the rising incidence of gender-based violence across the country.

International News

PRESSURE BUILDS ON GERMANY TO ACKNOWLEDGE GENOCIDE IN NAMIBIA

Africa News in Brief from Global Information NetworkAugust 12, 2015

Dr. Norbert Lammert, Speaker of the German Parliament, said the Herero and Nama peoples had been systematically targeted for massacre by Germany imperial troops.