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Namibia

Namibia

Population: 2.99m
GDP: $13.18bn
Debt: 63.03% of GDP (2024)

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Found 142 articles.

Displaying 6 results from 2011 (out of 142 total).

Trial by procrastination

Due to open on 1 June, the long-awaited Avid Investment Corporation trial, involving claims over the embezzlement of 30 million Namibian dollars (US$4.3 mn.), has been postponed yet...


Where the BEE sucks

A trial in June could mark the start of a reckoning for massive fraud in the public sector workers’ pension fund

Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) company Avid Investments collapsed in 2004, losing 30 million Namibian dollars (US$4.3 mn.) to the embezzlement of Social Security Commission (SSC) funds, but the...


No uranium for Tehran

United States’ worries over possible uranium sales to Iran from the planned Valencia mine in west-central Namibia may have blocked its sale to George Forrest International (GFI), according...


Harbour of resentment

A decision by the Namibian state-owned port operator to pre-award an estimated US$285 million contract for the Walvis Bay harbour expansion to the China Harbour Engineering Company ahead...


Tarah Shaanika

Chief Executive Officer, Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI)

In late March, a Metal and Allied Namibian Workers Union branch went on strike at New Era Investments, a Chinese construction company, over wages and benefits. Namibia’s high unemployment rate...


Displaying 6 results from 2011 (out of 142 total).