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 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

  • Vol 45 No 22
  •  5th November 2004

A Nujoma dynasty?

With former Foreign Minister Hidipo Hamutenya and his supporters demoted in a purge orchestrated by outgoing President Sam Nujoma, many MPs elected in the 15-16 November polls will be drawn from the Nujoma-loyalists expected to call most of the shots afte...

  • Vol 45 No 18
  •  10th September 2004

SWAPO in turmoil

An anonymous e-mail campaign against former Foreign Minister Hidipo Hamutenya threatens to undermine the governing party's image of unity in the run-up to November elections. President Sam Nujoma sacked Hamutenya in May, four days before the South West Af...

  • Vol 45 No 12
  •  11th June 2004

Sam's man

SWAPO's new flagbearer offers Nujomaism without Nujoma at the helm

  • Vol 45 No 10
  •  14th May 2004

Closer and closer

The election for the ruling party's leadership looks increasingly tight

  • Vol 45 No 8
  •  16th April 2004

Nujoma steps aside

Ambitious Foreign Minister Hidipo Hamutenya looks set to be installed as successor to President Sam Nujoma by the ruling South West African People's Organisation at its 28-29 May extraordinary congress (AC Vol 44 No 23). Hamutenya is one of three SWAPO mi...

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