Expansion of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), to accommodate the Comoros and Burundi are among top agenda points at the 37th SADC Summit, which kicked off in Pretoria, South Africa, on Saturday.

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has once again been absent from the SADC summit of Heads of State and Government. The east African leader instead assigned his vice-president Samia Suluhu to attend. It is the second time Magufuli misses the gathering of the region’s highest decision making body and provided no explanation. Other notable absentees are […]

The President of the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) Sven Thieme, spoke to our news team and says rating agency Moody’s’ economic downgrade is not based on fact but rather speculation. He says that the NCCI strongly disagrees with the downgrade, which he says, raises suspicion about the credibility of such agencies.

Fisheries and Marine Resources Minister Bernard Esau has expressed disappointment about the construction work on the multi-million aquaculture fish farm at Keetmanshoop that came to a halt. Esau who visited the project was outraged to learn that progress made on the farm has been unsteady.