06 march namib times e edition

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SERVING THE COASTAL COMMUNITY SINCE 1958 NO 6732 TUESDAY 6 MARCH 2018 Tel: +264 64 - 205854 / +264 64 - 461866 /Fax: +264 64 - 204813 / 064 - 461824 / Website: www.namibtimes.net

Namport releases short video of the offloading of ship-to-shore cranes

inside More than one year for ID

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Brazilian Navy Calls

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Over 100 schoolboys volunteer for circumcision Sharlien Tjambari

Health benefits associated with circumcision overwhelming More than one hundred school boys volunteered to be circumcised later this year, after being convinced of the health advantages associated with voluntary medical male circumcision. A group from Jhpiego Namibia, working under the Namibian Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Program, visited Coastal High to present an educational session. The group is highly impressed with the positive decision these young men took in the interest of their health. The group will be circumcised during the mid-term break (19 March to 2 April). It is a simple medical procedure and is conducted in highly hygienic conditions in the mobile clinic that the group uses and expert personnel conduct the procedure. The group now targets other schools in Swakopmund with their mobile clinic to educate and create awareness on male circumcision. They will go as far as Kavango East Region. The project has started in October 2017 and runs until 30 September. There have been 1 315 circumcisions conducted so far and the aim is to target 4815 young males Continues on Page 2

View video on namib times Facebook profile

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The occasion of the call at the port of Walvis Bay of the Brazilian naval vessel Amazonas afforded photographer Koos Liebenberg this weekend the opportunity to get this picture showing all four ship-to-shore cranes offloaded from the vessel Zhen Hua 8 (on the foreground). To offload these cranes, weighing 1290 tons each was no child’s play and it tested everyone who participated in the offloading operations’ every bit of skill and patience. Namport made a short video of the offloading operations which took just over two weeks and this video can now be viewed on You Tube and also on the namib times Facebook page.

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Walvis Bay Elderly man ends his life Rugby in his Swakopmund home Season

On Sunday evening between 21:00-22:00 Armine Blatt (81) committed suicide by shooting and was found dead in his home, flat number 11, Eggers Eck, Swakopmund.

According to the Namibian Police's crime investigations coordinator for Continues on Page 2

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