Politics | Economy - Development | Society | Media
Namibia gov't condones graft
afrol News, 2 April - Namibian authorities have been blamed for not taking aggressive stand on corruption, despite a surge in corruption-related stories on the country's print media over the years. Read more
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Politics | Economy - Development
"Severe blow" to Namibia's corruption fight
afrol News, 19 July - The national anti-corruption agency of Namibia has decided not to investigate further the controversial awarding of bidding to top officials in the Office of former Namibian President Sam Nujoma. Human rights activists call the decision a "severe blow to Namibia's anti-corruption crusade."
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Society
Namibian police search for tourist's killers
afrol News, 10 July - Namibian police have started the search for two men suspected of shooting a German tourist, Johannes Fellinger, to death in the country at the weekend. The men are also said to have kidnapped the dead tourist's wife, Elke Fellinger. Read more
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Media
Angry family threatens Namibian paper
afrol News, 26 April - Angered by its 23 March front page story linking its members to a mafia scam, the Palazzolo family threatens the publisher and editor of ‘The Namibian’ to pay US $1 million as compensation for causing injury to its reputation or else face legal suit for deformation. Read more
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Human rights | Agriculture - Nutrition
Namibia's San still "landless and marginalised"
afrol News / IRIN, 12 February - Several thousand San, the oldest population group of Namibia that is also known as "Bushmen", remain landless and have yet to reap the benefits of democracy in Namibia, a new report has revealed. Colonial ills have never been reversed, but rather deepened since independence in 1990. The San now claim their ancestral land, the world-famous Etosha Park, back.
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Economy - Development
Namibia deepens partnership with De Beers
afrol News, 31 January - The government of Namibia has entered into a new agreement with diamond monopolist De Beers over Namibian diamond sales until 2013, with conditions significantly improving for Namibia each time they have been renegotiated since colonial times. Partly state-owned Namdeb will get a larger share of the downstream industry and diamond trade through the deal.
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Health | Science - Education | Environment - Nature
Deadly infection hits Zambezi fish
afrol News / SciDev.Net, 14 December - A deadly but as yet unidentified infection among fish in backwaters of the Zambezi River has been detected, sparking fears that the disease could be transmitted to humans. The infection until now is most strongly present in the upwater parts of the Zambezi River; in Namibia and Zambia.
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Economy - Development
Return of diamonds to fuel Namibia economy
afrol News, 16 November - After some declining years and an impression that the diamond age in Namibia's economy were fading out, gems are making a comeback. Last available statistics show that the Namibian gem trade has boomed by 26 percent since mid-2005, and the industry keeps investing in diamond mining.
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Health
Namibia "mystery disease" was polio outbreak
afrol News, 6 June - Seven persons have already died and at least 27 have been paralysed by an unexpected polio outbreak in Namibia. Namibian health officials thought the battle against polio had already been won, following massive vaccination campaigns in the 1990s, and were thus not looking for polio as a "mystery disease" occurred outside Windhoek in May.
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Economy - Development
Namibians note "slow but steady progress"
Misanet / IRIN, 4 April - Namibians are better off than they were a decade ago, and the country is on track to meet the UN's poverty-cutting "millennium goals" by 2015, according to a major national household survey. Poverty levels are slowly but steadily being driven down in Namibia, the survey found.
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Gender - Women | Health | Society
Namibia considers legalising prostitution
Misanet / IRIN, 24 March - When former Namibian Health Minister Libertina Amathila made an emotional plea five years ago for prostitution to be legalised, her cabinet colleagues, parliament and the churches shot her views down, saying they were unacceptable. Now, the plea is being considered, not the least as a way to control the rapid spread of AIDS in Namibia.
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