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Namibia

Population: 2.1 million
GNI: $6600 million
Debt: $N/A million
Overview: Despite a relatively sound economy, the defection of dissident Hidipo Hamutenya from the ruling South West Africa People's Organisation offers a serious political challenge to President Hifikepunye Pohamba's government.

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  • Vol 42 No 17
  • 31/08/2001

Next, please

Those who want to be President are emerging from the shadows. He who leads the South West African People's Organisation leads the nation and the party's leadership contest will come at its national congress, due next year.

  • Vol 42 No 10
  • 18/05/2001

After Sam, maybe

The founder of the third-term movement may just try for a fourth

  • Vol 41 No 23
  • 24/11/2000

It's party time

The ruling parties of Namibia, Angola, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique would work together to root out agents of imperialism in Southern Africa, said South West Africa People's Organisation Secretary General Hifikepunye Pohamba at the end of October...

  • Vol 41 No 18
  • 15/09/2000

Murderous border

The new chief of the Namibia Defence Force is Major General Solomon 'Jesus' Hawala, which worries many Namibians (AC Vol 31 Nos 19 & 20). In the undeclared war along the north-eastern border with Angola, the security forces are widely believed to invo...

  • Vol 41 No 14
  • 07/07/2000

Too dry for crops

Redistribution sounds like a good idea until you look at the land itself

  • Vol 41 No 2
  • 21/01/2000

SWAPO steamroller

Peaceful elections are followed by worries about overspill from the Angola war

  • Vol 40 No 17
  • 27/08/1999

A hammer to a nut

Mysterious documents are doing the rounds in Paris claiming that Sassou wants to retire

  • Vol 40 No 17
  • 27/08/1999

On the fringe of a war

Mishake Muyongo leapt out of the obscurity of his Danish exile on 2 August when Caprivian separatists attacked Katima Mulilo. He says the raid on Caprivi's capital opens a struggle which could end if the Namibian government begins talks on Caprivian ...

  • Vol 40 No 7
  • 02/04/1999

Ulenga's challenge

Ben Ulenga, who resigned last year as Namibia's High Commissioner to Britain in protest at intolerance in the ruling South West African People's Organisation, has helped launch a new party, provisionally called the Congress of Democrats (CD). He has not s...

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