news

by country & category

Namibia

Namibia
Population: 2.1 mn.
GDP: 11.7 bn.
Debt: n/a
Overview:

Vice-President Hage Geingob is likely to emerge as President Hifikepunye Pohamba's successor against a strong field at the SWAPO conference. Mining is strong, investment is up and GDP growth of 4.2% is forecast.

Namibia Country Report

 


news from Namibia

Category: all

Found 67 articles.

Displaying 31-40 out of 67 results.

  • Vol 47 No 5
  •  3rd March 2006

Nujoma won't go

President Pohamba's ambition to clean up the government may be blocked by his predecessor

  • Vol 47 No 5
  •  3rd March 2006

Swapover

Sam Nujoma no longer completely controls the party he has led for over 45 years. The 21-member Political Bureau is split between Nujomaists and backers of former Foreign Affairs Minister Hidipo Hamutenya; a few non-aligned ministers vote on the merits of ...

  • Vol 46 No 22
  •  4th November 2005

Peace for now

A crisis of authority between President Hifikepunye Pohamba and his predecessor, Sam Nujoma, has been averted. The Deputy Minister of Transport, Works and Communication, Paulus Kapia, implicated in the embezzlement of 30 million Namibian dollars in state ...

  • Vol 46 No 19
  •  23rd September 2005

Hamutenya returns

Ex-Foreign Affairs Minister Hidipo Hamutenya may soon return to frontline politics after the fall of his opponent Paulus Kapia, the former deputy Minister of Works involved in the N$30 million (US$4.8 mn.) Avid Investment Corporation scandal (AC Vol 46 No...

  • Vol 46 No 17
  •  26th August 2005

Pohamba's graft test

Will the President punish his predecessor's protégé, caught in a financial scandal?

  • Vol 46 No 15
  •  22nd July 2005

Diamond battles

The diamond war between Israeli magnate Lev Leviev and South African giant De Beers is heating up again in Namibia, a year after Leviev's LLD Diamonds Namibia subsidiary opened a US$6 million high-tech gem processing factory in Windhoek. President Hifikep...

  • Vol 46 No 6
  •  18th March 2005

Who's in charge?

The ruling South West African People's Organisation is riven by quarrels, as President Sam Nujoma gets ready to hand over to Hifikepunye Pohamba on 21 March. Pohamba's difficulties in forming a new inclusive government (AC Vol 45 No 24) began at the SWAPO...

  • Vol 46 No 5
  •  4th March 2005

Power to the party

The President-elect must balance his predecessor's weight against his party's mood

  • Vol 45 No 25
  •  17th December 2004

Correction

In our Namibia feature 'Sam's successor' (AC Vol 45 No 24) we described the United Democratic Front as a 'former DTA component'. The UDF had an alliance with the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance in the previous parliament but never merged with it.

  • Vol 45 No 24
  •  3rd December 2004

Sam's successor

The new President will have to work hard to convince people that he is his own man

Displaying 31-40 out of 67 results.