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Sub-Saharan Africa ranks sixth in terms of the global gender gap, with a current score of 68% according to the World Economic Forum (WEF). In its latest Global Gender Gap Report 2025, released this week, the WEF notes Sub-Saharan Africa displays wide variation across countries, but its success stories demonstrate that progress is possible in...
Never in the history of Namibia’s toughest rally has anyone won the event three times. That is, until this past weekend, when driver Wilro Dippenaar and his navigator Carolyn Swan, secured their third consecutive win at Namibia’s most iconic motorsport event, the oldest known rally in Africa and perhaps the toughest rally on the continent,...
Government, through the finance ministry, is actively reducing the country’s reliance on external borrowing in favour of prioritising the domestic financial market. Currently, government’s borrowing plan involves financing government debt with 80% from domestic sources and borrowing and 20% from external sources. Moreover, most of Namibia’s external debt is denominated in South African Rand to...
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Cargo handled by the Namibian Ports Authority (Namport) at the ports of Walvis Bay and Lüderitz increased by almost 5% to over 8 million tonnes for the financial year ended 31 March 2025. This throughput of 8.42 million tonnes is up from 8.03 million tonnes handled during the previous financial year. In a media statement...
Despite routine maintenance on the West African Cable System (WACS), which Namibia relies on for its internet connection to the rest of the world, Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) has rerouted most of the country’s data traffic to backup systems to ensure continuity of internet services. MTC yesterday stated that scheduled maintenance on WACS is ongoing...