Category: Namibia

Namibia, a country in southwest Africa, is distinguished by the Namib Desert along its Atlantic Ocean coast. The country is home to diverse wildlife, including a significant cheetah population. The capital, Windhoek, and coastal town Swakopmund contain German colonial-era buildings such as Windhoek’s Christuskirche, built in 1907. In the north, Etosha National Park’s salt pan draws game including rhinos and giraffes.
Capital: Windhoek
Population: 2.448 million (2018) World Bank

Namibia: Incumbent President Geingob wins re-election

December 1, 2019 Village Reporterelections, Hage Geingob, Namibia, News, Southern Africa

Namibia’s incumbent President Hage Geingob has been declared winner of last month’s presidential election. The electoral commission of Namibia said on Saturday that Geingob retained power, winning the election with 56.3% of the vote. His closest rival, a fellow SWAPO party member Panduleni Itula who ran as independent came second with 29.4%. In third place was the leader of the official opposition party, McHenry Venaani who secured 5.3% of the votes. Despite his victory there was a drop in his support base. Geingob secured 87% of votes in the 2014…

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Namibia: Commonwealth says poll was ‘peaceful and orderly’

November 30, 2019 Village ReporterCommonwealth, elections, Featured, Namibia, Southern Africa

Namibia’s election on 27 November was carried out in a largely peaceful and orderly manner, according to an interim statement issued by the Commonwealth observers who were deployed to the country. The group noted that the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly Elections – the sixth multiparty elections since Namibia‘s independence – were the most competitive in the country’s electoral history. Issuing the Group’s preliminary statement in Windhoek, the Chair of the Observer Group, former Attorney General of Zambia Musa Mwenye, said: “We observed that the processing of voters remains slow,…

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Namibians vote in crucial presidential and parliamentary polls

November 27, 2019 Village Reporterelections, Featured, Namibia, News, Southern Africa, Voting

Namibians went to the polls on Wednesday to vote for a new president and parliamentarians in elections considered crucial and anticipated to be tight. The ruling Swapo party has been in power since independence from South Africa in 1990 and is expected to prolong that hold on power. Incumbent President Hage Geingob who is the country’s third leader since independence is seeking a second and final term in office. He is facing opposition from Namibia’s first female presidential candidate, Esther Muinjangue as well as Panduleni Itula, who is a member…

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Esther Muinjangue: Namibia’s first female candidate for president

November 24, 2019 Village Reporterelections, Esther Muinjangue, Namibia, Southern Africa, Special Reports

On Wednesday Namibians will be heading to the polls and Esther Muinjangue will be the country’s first female presidential candidate in the election. She will be leading her National Unity Democratic Organisation (NUDO) party into the election hoping the 2.45 million citizens will give her a chance to lead the country. In an interview with AFP she said she feels a “wind of change” blowing in her country. “You hear a lot of people complaining about the (ruling) SWAPO-led government,” she said adding that “There was apathy among the youth.”…

Namibia: Victory for San Rights as Police order stop to Land Invasion in Tsumkwe

June 12, 2013 admin

Johannesburg, 11 June – Sometimes it pays for communities to cry out in desperation. It has certainly paid off for the !Kung San living in the N≠a Jaqna Conservancy in Namibia’s western Tsumkwe region, who issued a desperate plea last week for the authorities to tackle the illegal land invasions that were threatening their future.

High Court Finds Namibia Coervively Sterilised HIV Positive Women

August 4, 2012 adminNambia, OSISA

Johannesburg, 30 July 2012 – In a landmark judgment, the High Court in Windhoek found today that the Namibian government had coercively sterilised three HIV-positive women in violation of their basic rights.

“This decision is a significant victory for HIV positive women in Namibia,” said Nicole Fritz, the Executive Director of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC). “This ruling affirms not only the rights of HIV positive women but also of all women to access their sexual and reproductive rights.”