Namibia

Namibia

Population: 2.2 mn.
GDP: 12.1 bn.
Debt: 26 bn.
Overview:

Hage Geingob is confirmed as President Hifikepunye Pohamba’s preferred successor. He will see off SWAPO Youth League pressure for radical economic policies and boost investor confidence. Higher diamond and uranium output – and the construction of the Chinese-owned Husab uranium mine – will raise GDP growth to some 5.4%.

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  • Vol 53 No 25
  •  14th December 2012

Geingob reassures

The governing SWAPO party surprised friend and foe alike by electing Hage Geingob, 72, as its presidential successor to President Hifikepunye Pohamba.

  • Vol 53 No 24
  •  30th November 2012

SWAPO picks a new leader

Three hats are in the ring for the SWAPO vice-presidency: the winner will almost certainly become the next head of state

  • Vol 53 No 16
  •  3rd August 2012

Cross-border pollution

Lev Leviev's interests in neighbouring Namibia could suffer as a result of the British High Court proceedings in June, especially from the judge's critical remarks about his credibility as a witness and from revelations about the manipulation of Angolan d...

  • Vol 53 No 12
  •  8th June 2012

SWAPO shutdown

Jockeying for position to succeed President Hifikepunye Pohamba is rising following confirmation that SWAPO’s elective congress will be held on 28 November to 2 December.

  • Vol 53 No 4
  •  17th February 2012

Blow to Geingob

The presidential ambitions of Hage Geingob appear holed beneath the waterline after he admitted taking a US$300,000 consultancy fee from French nuclear power company Areva in 2008 (AC Vol 53 No 2, The man most likely to succeed Pohamba). He had given advi...

  • Vol 53 No 2
  •  20th January 2012

The man most likely to succeed Pohamba

SWAPO chooses its candidate this year for the 2014 election

  • Vol 52 No 16
  •  5th August 2011

Citizen candidate

  • Vol 52 No 12
  •  10th June 2011

Trial by procrastination

Due to open on 1 June, the long-awaited Avid Investment Corporation trial, involving claims over the embezzlement of 30 million Namibian dollars (US$4.3 mn.), has been postponed yet again. It will probably not happen until next year.

  • Vol 52 No 11
  •  27th May 2011

Where the BEE sucks

A trial in June could mark the start of a reckoning for massive fraud in the public sector workers’ pension fund

  • Vol 52 No 4
  •  18th February 2011

No uranium for Tehran

United States’ worries over possible uranium sales to Iran from the planned Valencia mine in west-central Namibia may have blocked its sale to George Forrest International (GFI), according to US State Department cables published by WikiLeaks. Valencia’s e...

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