Economy - Development | Politics | Society
Namibia registers record inflation
afrol News, 14 July - For the first time in more than five years Namibia's inflation has reached a two-digit level. From 9.7% in May, inflation shot up to 10.3% in June, said Namibia's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS).
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Politics | Gender - Women
Namibia reaches 30 percent women MP target
afrol News / SARDC, 19 June - Namibia has become the fourth country in the Southern African region to achieve 30 percent female representation in political and decision-making positions.
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Politics | Economy - Development | Science - Education | Society
Skills shortage plagues Namibia's mining industry
afrol News, 2 June - Namibia's Chamber of Mine has expressed concern about the acute shortage of skills in the country's mining sector, calling for a review of Namibia's Immigration Act and revamp of the Immigration Services Board (ISB).
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Travel - Leisure | Economy - Development
"Tourism in Namibia set to soar"
afrol News, 15 May - Namibia is sought to be one of the fastest travel and tourism destinations in the world in the next years. In a State of the Nation address presented this week by the President of Namibia, Hifikepunye Pohamba, he said the country's tourism has consistently soared in recent times.
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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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