Preparations are well on track for the sixth Swapo Party Congress.

Robert Mugabe resigned as president of Zimbabwe Tuesday. The 93-year-old finally buckled under pressure from both ruling party ZANU-PF, who recalled him on Sunday, as well as the military who took over last week and put him under house arrest. His 37-year reign came to an abrupt end when the parliament speaker to a special […]

The Government will continue to focus on achieving fiscal consolidation policy measures to promote trade and investments. The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah made these remarks while addressing foreign diplomats.

There were jubilant scenes at Rundu, as delegates traveled from as far as Karasburg in the South and Katima Mullilo in the Zambezi region, to show their support for Swapo Presidential candidate Dr Hage Geingob and his running mates.

The construction of the dual-carriageway behind Dune 7 in the Erongo Region is well on track.

The first Air Namibia flight for the Walvis Bay-Ondangwa route landed at the Walvis Bay International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. The ERJ 135 aircraft carried 25 passengers from Ondangwa to the harbour town in less than an hour. Flights will be operated on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays for a charge of N$2 000 return. Marketing […]

Zimbabwe’s parliament has passed a motion to impeach President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday. A nine member committee has been selected to work out the modalities for Mugabe’s exit and is expected to report back to parliament by Wednesday. After the committee’s report to the house, the Speaker is the expected to notify Mugabe of the […]

The Head of Department at !Nara Primary School, Baddy Visagie has called on residents of the Tutaleni informal settlement at Walvis Bay to stop vandalising school property.

Houses constructed under the mass housing project at Karasburg still remain unoccupied. The councillor for the Karasburg west constituency, Dennis Coetzee said the residents are simply unable to afford the houses. Out of the 155 houses built under the mass housing programme, only 48 have thus far been handed over to beneficiaries. While 107 houses […]

Ratings agency, Fitch has downgraded Namibia to junk status. The agency rated Namibia’s long term foreign currency issuer default rating to BB+ from BBB-, with a stable outlook. The downgrade of the long-term foreign-currency reflects weaker than forecast fiscal outcomes. The ratings agency also projects that public debt-to-GDP will continue to rise over the medium […]