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 49 No 24
  •  28th November 2008

Swapping Stakes

There are over sixty current prospecting licences for uranium in Namibia

  • Vol 49 No 23
  •  14th November 2008

Nujoma's grasp

The ex-President's loyalists obstruct and may destroy his successor's gentler government

  • Vol 48 No 24
  •  30th November 2007

Breaking up the party

The latest attempt to replace the governing party has some impressive leaders but needs voters

  • Vol 48 No 22
  •  2nd November 2007

Sam bows out again

The founding President is standing down, but he certainly isn't going away for good

  • Vol 48 No 16
  •  3rd August 2007

Sam the lifer

Namibia’s founding President, Sam Nujoma, will almost certainly be elected to the new post of national chairman (probably for life) of the governing South West African People's Organisation at its congress on 27-30 November.

  • Vol 48 No 12
  •  8th June 2007

Sam and son of Sam

Former President Sam Nujoma holds on to his party presidency, while his relations make their fortunes

  • Vol 48 No 12
  •  8th June 2007

Cosa Namibia

Palermo-born Vito Roberto Palazzolo, who is wanted by the Italian police on charges of membership of the mafia, drug-trafficking and money-laundering, is extending his business interests from South Africa, where he enjoys political protection, to Namibia.

  • Vol 48 No 9
  •  27th April 2007

Going nuclear Russian-style

Russia hopes to buy uranium from Africa and sell it generators, as nuclear power comes back into fashion. It has made offers to Angola (AC Vol 48 No 8) - and to Namibia, whose Mines and Energy Permanent Secretary, Joseph Lita, revealed that the cabinet ha...

  • Vol 48 No 4
  •  16th February 2007

SWAPO splinters

Senior officials in the governing South West African People's Organisation accuse supporters of leader and founding President Sam Nujoma of rigging party elections and harassing opponents. Nujoma has also been named as the instigator of the 'forces of unr...

  • Vol 47 No 22
  •  3rd November 2006

Missing in action

New army Chief Lieutenant General Martin Shalli, recalled from Zambia last month after Gen. Solomon Hawala's sudden retirement, faces a storm over sales of armoured personnel carriers (APCs) to private military companies in Iraq.

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