Vol 51 No 23 | NAMIBIA Culpable contracts 19th November 2010 Oil-trader Glencore International fears Namibia may wish to review its lengthy 2007 contract to provide half of refined petroleum imports until 2014. Namibia’s dollar is tied to the...
Vol 51 No 20 | NAMIBIA SWAPO suffers bee stings 8th October 2010 Elections next month and rumbling financial scandals around SWAPO-linked businesses could boost support for the opposition The opposition was cheered by a legal victory last month, when the Supreme Court overturned the Windhoek High Court's dismissal of an application by nine opposition parties to...
Vol 51 No 7 | NAMIBIA The rise and rise of son of Sam 2nd April 2010 The prospect of a Nujoma dynasty looms with the promotion of Utoni Nujoma, the eldest son of founding President Sam Nujoma, to the senior cabinet position of Minister...
Vol 51 No 5 | NAMIBIA Uranium battleground 5th March 2010 The race to develop new uranium mines in the central Namib Desert is led by France’s nuclear giant Areva, pursued by smaller Australian and Canadian exploration companies. Areva...
Vol 51 No 4 | NAMIBIA SWAPO's big guns in the fray 19th February 2010 With five years to go, rows are already under way about the next presidential candidate and the last election results President Hifikepunye Pohamba will be sworn in for his second five-year term at the end of March after the ever-governing South West Africa People’s Organisation was awarded an...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 6 | NAMIBIACHINA Nuctech’s nobody 22nd April 2010 Why won’t anyone help Yang Fan pay his US$135,000 bail bond – especially when he has $2.3 million stashed in a local bank account and a swish golf...