Vol 62 No 20 | BOTSWANANAMIBIA Probe into shootings of 'poachers' 7th October 2021 Botswana has formally registered an inquest through the courts to investigate the shootings of three Namibians and a Zambian by its army along a river border with Namibia...
Vol 62 No 12 | NAMIBIA Apology but no reparations 10th June 2021 Berlin's belated offer of compensation for colonial atrocities won’t end the matter and is proving politically divisive Germany has finally acknowledged that its colonial forces committed genocide against the Ovaherero and Nama and agreed to pay compensation, but these communities of central-eastern and southern Namibia...
Vol 62 No 12 | NAMIBIA Controversial delta drilling 10th June 2021 Canada's Reconnaissance Energy Africa (ReconAfrica) is convinced it has hit paydirt in the Kavango basin of north-eastern Namibia/north-western Botswana, which extends under part of the watershed of the...
DISPATCHES Vol 62 No 11 | NAMIBIARWANDAGERMANYFRANCE Berlin offers $1.3billion to Namibia and Paris asks for forgiveness for involvement in genocides 1st June 2021 A week of performative diplomacy over genocides raises far more questions than it answers Far from drawing a line under Germany's genocide in Namibia between 1904-1908 and France's involvement in the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the declarations by Berlin and Paris... READ FOR FREE