Full Coverage: Namibia

16.07.2008 Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe have been given the go-ahead to make a single sale of a total of 108 tons of government-owned ivory.
+ China gets green light to buy ivory
+ How ivory from 11,000 elephants has disappeared into China's black market

10.03.2008 WINDHOEK, Mar 10 (IPS) - The Namibian government plans to stay the course with an economic incentive program for corporations -- known as export processing zones (EPZ) -- despite one of the largest of the foreign investors deciding last week to close down its operations -- a move that will destroy 3,000 jobs.

01.11.2007 Russia is removing tariffs from many African goods in a new effort to support development and improve trade relations with the continent.

03.07.2007 Botswana, Kenya, Nigeria and Namibia are leading a campaign by African governments to weaken a key UN Declaration that would protect the rights of indigenous peoples, according to campaigners.

10.04.2007 Communities in Madagascar, Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and Zambia are struggling to recover from a season of unusually heavy rains, cyclones, severe flooding, and extreme drought.

27.07.2006

19.05.2006 Namibian advocacy groups have vowed to continue fighting for a monthly cash allowance for all citizens to help cope with poverty, despite being turned down by the government.

12.03.2006 The AIDS epidemic's impact on families in Namibia has been so great that the government has created a new official category: "Child-Headed Household." A new documentary on OneWorld TV illuminates Namibians' daily struggles.

10.03.2006

25.11.2005 Two more mass graves - apparently of SWAPO independence fighters - have been found in northern Namibia, making a total of five since the discovery of the first on 9 November.

05.09.2005 As the technological world perpetually evolves, Namibians are equally becoming more involved in sophisticated yet skillful ways of enhancing their communications.Testimony to this is the introduction of Voice-Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) that entails making a normal call via the internet connection.

25.08.2005 THE Namibian College of Open Learning (Namcol) has produced a series of electronic lessons that will help students studying physical science.

01.08.2005 A two member business delegation from Oracle African Operations held talks with a senior politician in efforts to assist Namibia formulate its e-governance policy.

07.07.2005 Do educators who learn online feel part of a community? Is online teacher professional development intellectually rigorous, relevant and cost-effective?

26.06.2005 The Global Forum event was not only the first event for GeSCI to
co-host but it also signified the next stage in GeSCI's work in two of our priority countries.

14.06.2005 In an effort to address insurmountable educational challenges and in order to give Namibia the edge on the global information technology arena, the Ministry of Education has unveiled its Information and Communication Technology Policy.

14.06.2005 The Namibian Government has released the ICT Policy for Education and Training Sector recently.

11.05.2005 One of the by-products of the AIDS epidemic sweeping many African nations is the loss of knowledge; for example, with no one to teach them, rural children orphaned at a young age might never learn to farm. But the UN agricultural agency is now taking many of these children under its wings, teaching farming, business, and life skills to ensure another generation is not lost.

28.04.2005

30.12.2004 Poverty and HIV/AIDS are the biggest challenges to Namibia meeting the Millennium Development Goals, Prime Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab has stated. Although the country suffers the 7th highest infection rate in the world, development aid is dropping, due in part to Namibia's classification as a middle-income country. The country has islands of wealth in a sea of poverty.