Namibia

There was drama at the Wanaheda police station following the arrest of Windhoek mayor Sade Gawanas after a confrontation between her and police officers on patrol broke out at Okahandja Park yesterday. Images of a handcuffed Gawanas emerged on social media platforms yesterday afternoon. The mayor was allegedly unlawfully arrested…

*This content is brought to you by Paratus Swakopmund: Following the announcement in February 2021 that African telco, Paratus Group, together with Telecom Namibia, had been selected to build the cable landing station (CLS) for the Equiano subsea internet cable in Namibia, the cable been brought ashore. The Equiano subsea cable…

In June 2020 Imanuwela David escaped from South Africa to Namibia, about four months after his alleged involvement in the theft of millions of dollars hidden in a sofa at President Cyril Ramphosa’s Phala Phala game farm.  According to a Namibian police report seen by amaBhungane, when David was questioned…

Holden Frith Set on the banks of a river in a dense, tropical forest, Serra Cafema is an outlier among Namibia’s desert-focused safari lodges. There is no shortage of desert here either – you will spend plenty of time exploring it during your stay – but this remote Wilderness Safaris…

Google’s Equiano subsea internet cable, which was first announced in 2019 and is meant to connect Europe and Africa via a cable running along the west coast of Africa from Portugal to South Africa, has landed in Swakopmund, Namibia. In a statement shared on LinkedIn, the CEO of Paratus Group…

ReconAfrica's controversial oil exploration activities in the Kavango regions have been officially endorsed by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resources, which is chaired by former Cabinet minister Tjekero Tweya. ReconAfrica, the Canadian-based company recently came under criticism from locals who claimed there was no consultation before the company started…

Holden Frith If anywhere in our over-explored world can still be called a wilderness, it’s the Skeleton Coast in northwest Namibia. The gates that mark the end of the public road at its southern boundary don’t quite say “here be dragons”, but they may as well: a giant painted skull…

NAMIBIA and Kenya will contest the Rugby Africa Cup final on Sunday after both nations came through Wednesday's semi-finals relatively unscathed. Kenya secured their place in the final after edging Algeria 36-33 in a pulsating semi-final clash in Marseille, while Namibia comfortably saw off Zimbabwe 34-19 in Aix-en-Provence, France, despite…

COMMUNITY forest and conservancy organisations from the Kavango regions are trying to get a court order to stop Canadian oil exploration company ReconAfrica from further oil and gas exploration activities in Namibia. The case will be heard in the High Court on Friday. It was postponed at the end of…

In a new judgment of extraordinary importance for freedom of expression and media freedom in Namibia, that country’s highest court has confirmed the development of the common law to give greater protection to the Namibian media so that, as the court put it, its ‘important democratic role of providing information…