• Severe drought taking heavy toll in northern Namibia

    OPUWO, 12 August 2013 (IRIN) – The arid hills of Namibia’s northwestern Kunene Region make for a harsh environment at the best of times. With agriculture limited by the region’s dry, sandy soil, most of the local population rely on livestock farming, leading a semi-nomadic existence dictated by the search for fresh pasture for their…

  • Caprivi name is no more and where is the History?

    Caprivi name is no more and where is the History?

    EDITORIAL The long awaited debate in changing the name Caprivi and its territorial boarders has brought new signals.  In response to recent public announcement by Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba in dividing the two northeastern regions, Kavango and the then Caprivi into Zambezi and East Kavango has brought new ideas.  Our eyes are still open; we…

  • ‘No authorisation’ for Bashir plane: Saudi

     Riyadh – A plane carrying Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to Tehran at the weekend was blocked from crossing Saudi Arabian airspace because no prior approval had been sought, the kingdom’s civil aviation authorities said on Tuesday. This was the only reason the plane was turned back, the General Authority of Civil Aviation said in a…

  • Fresh diplomatic drive to defuse Egypt crisis

    Fresh diplomatic drive to defuse Egypt crisis

    Cairo – Two high-profile US senators were Tuesday to hold talks in Cairo, the latest push in a growing diplomatic flurry to defuse a crisis sparked by the military’s overthrow of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham arrived on Monday evening for talks with main players in the stand-off between Morsi’s…

  • Supreme Court dismisses Charges of High treason

    Supreme Court dismisses Charges of High treason

    By Risco Lumamezi THE Supreme Court of Namibia has set aside all convictions and sentences imposed on each of the 10 accused suspects of the Caprivi High Treason. In its appeal Judgement, which was sent to Caprivi Vision and delivered in court on July 15, Chief Justice Peter Shivute sent back  the matter to the…

  • Male Circumcision in Caprivi is in progress

    Male Circumcision in Caprivi is in progress

    By Risco Lumamezi ABOUT 901 men in Caprivi region opted to go for voluntary circumcision as a way of lowering HIV risk.   According to World Health Organisation, the reason for this is that the foreskin acts as HIV’s main entry point to the body during penetrative sex between an uninfected man and an HIV-infected…

  • Lets Stop Crime Seriously

    -EDITORIAL-   IT is high time now that residents of the Caprivi region must learn to love each other by speaking under one voice and urging our state justice system to critically root out and give stiff sentence to those who take law into their own hands. June 29, 2013 will never be forgotten in…

  • M YOUNG MAKING STRIDES WITH NEW C.D

    M YOUNG MAKING STRIDES WITH NEW C.D

    By Dominic Sikopo A Local Hip Hop  Musician and Producer M Young officially known as Mr. Mario Mujohn has been a busy man since his last interview with CVNEWS. Caprivi Vision caught up again with the artist to get a b on what he`s been up to lately in terms of his music career. What…

  • Police exhumes a body

    By Dominic Sikopo Namibian Police  in Katima Mulilo exhumed the remains of a Zambian National , Mr. Simasiku Songa Justine recently at Chantuhu village , some 30 Kilometers West of of Katima Mulilo.     It is alleged that three men Mr.Likando Milimo, Mr.Likando Monje Fred and Mr.Mbonabi Alex Machamina killed the deceased after a quarel…

  • UNAM PEER EDUCATORS DONATE TO CHARITY

    By Staff Reporter Peer Educators of the University of Namibia’s Katima Mulilo Campus recently ploughed back to the community by donating to charity. The lucky charity organisation was Buikezezo Charity Organisation which received donations such as clothes which were sown and embroided by embroidery students of the Zambezi Vocational Training Centre (ZVTC) and a cheque…