Namibia’s government is pursuing reforms to improve the business environment, attract investment and spur industrialisation. One of the objectives of the NIPDB is to review and propose policy reforms and measures to support trade and investment promotion, conducive labour market policies, improve the country’s competitiveness and the ease of doing business.
In 2017, Namibia acceded to become the 36th African Union member of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). The establishment of the APRM owed courtesy to the acknowledgement that the continent’s failures can only be resolved by African countries through inclusive partnerships between governments, civil society formations and the private sector.
Newly appointed Ombudsman Basilius Dyakugha sat down with New Era’s journalist Maria Amakali to shed light on his journey and plans for his new role.
As is characteristic of the Namibian political and media landscape where some entities thrive on the latest gossips, destructive innuendos and politics of division, it is little wonder that President Hage Geingob’s recent remarks at the Swapo Party Central Committee meeting of 2 October 2021 were misconstrued and presented to the public as an insult to the Central Committee members, and more outra
Swapo will survive to see yet another day, despite its current complicated and unfortunate predicaments it is finding itself in. As a matter of fact, the South West Africa People’s Organisation is finding itself at an opportune time to rewrite its history.
What Namibia’s football fraternity lack in competence and cohesion, they make up for in letter writing and court action.
Chief Correctional Officer: Laimi Hainghumbi
“We, as members of the Aroab Small Livestock Farmers Association have requested the village council previously to allocate part of the land in town to us, as the less fortunate in order to address our housing and grazing challenges, but are still waiting on them,” he explained.
Swapo Member of Parliament (MP) Nono Katjingisiua has appealed to fellow parliamentarians to approach the genocide matter with the sensitivity it deserves and work collectively to improve the joint declaration, especially on the monetary aspect.
Popular Democratic Movement parliamentarian Kazeongere Tjeundo has called upon those supporting the N$18 billion genocide agreement to convince parliament as to why they think the deal is justifiable.