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Namibia opposition parties mull legal action as results trickle in Mon Nov 30, 3:30 PM WINDHOEK - Opposition parties threatened legal action Monday over alleged irregularities in Namibia's general election in which early returns gave the ruling party a comfortable lead.

Namibia's election commission says President Hifikepunye Pohamba has won re-election, with more than six times as many votes as his nearest rival.

Ruling South West Africa People's Organization is winning about three-fourths of votes cast in initial returns.

People walk under an election poster of the ruling South West African People's Organization , showing the incumbent President Hifikepunye Pohamba in Katatura, outside Windhoek, 25 Nov 2009 An official of Namibia's main opposition party says a coalition of opposition groups may legally challenge the results of last week's general election.

Long lines of voters packed polling places in Namibia on the second and final day of the country's national elections, observers said.

We are tired of seeing our minority groups being marginalised while our regions boast with all kind of minerals, but are never considered for allocations.

Crystal Orderson: SABC Namibia Namibiaa s election commission has promised members of the public that final results will be announced by tomorrow as the first results from hat countrya s presidential and parliamentary elections are trickling-in slowly.

More than 36 hours after Namibians cast their ballots in the presidential and national assembly vote, the Namibian electoral commission has only released results in three constituencies.

THE entire staff and the directors of the Electoral Commission of Namibia should be fired, the Chairman of the DTA of Namibia said yesterday, alleging incompetence.

DARK clouds of anxiety, frustration and confusion hung over most parts of Namibia late yesterday as the Electoral Commission of Namibia failed to release any official election results on the first day after the polls closed in Namibia's fourth post-Independence Presidential and National Assembly elections.

Voters in Namibia went to the polls on Saturday for the second and final day of national elections, a balloting most likely to lead to another landslide victory for the South-West African People's Organization, or Swapo, the party that has governed since independence in 1990.

Namibians voted for the second day on Saturday in presidential and parliamentary elections that looked set to keep the ruling party in power and hand President Hifikepunye Pohamba five more years at the helm.

Namibia's President Hifikepunye Pohamba is a former political prisoner, who was whipped in public for his activism, and who was the minister in charge of land reform.

Once viewed as a stooge for Namibia's liberation leader Sam Nujoma, President Hifikepunye Pohamba has slowly cemented his own authority and built a reputation as a soft-spoken consensus builder.

Campaigning in Namibia has been hit by legal rows ahead of polls on Friday. The National Society for Human Rights is going to court after the electoral commission withdrew its observer status, saying it was not impartial.

Namibia's longtime ruling party is expected to return to power in Friday elections but its hold on this desert nation may weaken with the emergence of a new opposition party.

Windhoek - Namibians vote on Friday and Saturday in general elections expected to see the ruling South West Africa People's Organisation return to power, despite a tough challenge from a new breakaway party.

However, the regional school counsellors intervened. Now my son is one of the best learners.

NAMIBIA'S Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr Kaire Mbuende, has shot down calls for his recall, saying they were borne out of 'ignorance'. Mbuende was reacting to a call by Swapo Party Youth League Secretary Elijah Ngurare for Mbuende to be relieved of his duties due to non-performance. The SPYL held a joint media briefing with the National Union ...

Like parents everywhere, mothers and fathers in Namibia , an impoverished southern African nation, worry about college costs and opportunities for their children.