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As an independent economic and business researcher and board member of the African Council on Foreign Relations, I would like to celebrate Namibian history by extending my heartfelt congratulations to H.E. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Namibia’s first female president-in-waiting and, therefore, first female president of SADC. One must be familiar with Iceland’s first female president, Vigdís Finnbogadottir,...
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