Key Issues

Category: Key Issues

Holders of South West Africa IDs to qualify for citizenship

WINDHOEK: The government has taken steps to ensure that Namibians who still possess the old South West Africa identification documents (SWA IDs) are able to obtain citizenship.

Statistics from the Namibia Statistics Agency indicated that in 2016, app…

Voter registration in Kunene exceeds 90 per cent

Voter registration is proceeding smoothly in the Kunene Region, despite numerous difficulties confronting the region’s inhabitants such as the displaced farmers who are migrating about in search of grazing for their cattle in drought-stricken areas.

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Namibia and Zambia discuss security issues

Namibia and Zambia have expressed concern about prevailing cross-border crimes such as smuggling of goods, illegal fishing and timber harvesting, as well as illegal migration between the two nations.

Additionally, transnational organised crimes such …

ECN impressed with high voter registration numbers

WINDHOEK: The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) has said it is impressed with the rising number of members of the public registering to vote in the upcoming national elections slated for 27 November.

ECN Spokesperson De Wet Siluka in an interview…

Namibia condemns act by AfD deputy leader: Naanda

WINDHOEK: Namibia has condemned the actions of Sven Tritschler, deputy leader of the Alternative fr Deutschland (AfD) parliamentary faction from North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany, after he laid a wreath on a grave site of an officer from the notor…

Venaani wants probe into Namdia losses

Popular Democratic Movement president McHenry Venaani said the significant revenue losses of about N.dollars 230 million at Namib Desert Diamonds (Namdia) is deeply troubling, and warrants immediate and rigorous scrutiny.

In a media statement on Wedn…