Namibia

Paleontologists have described the first three-dimensional preservation of soft tissue in Namacalathus hermanastes, a skeletal metazoan (multicellular animal) that lived some 547 million years ago (Ediacaran period) in what is now Namibia, and established a strong evolutionary link between Ediacaran and early Cambrian metazoans. Namacalathus (individuals numbered). Centimeter scale. Image…

By Mark Kaufman2021-01-09 19:05:54 UTC The wild teems with the unknown. Researchers have identified two dwarf giraffes, the first such animals known to science. During routine surveys of endangered, troubled giraffe populations by the conservation group Giraffe Conservation Foundation, biologists found the two curious ungulates, one in Namibia and the…

A politician named Adolf Hitler has won a regional election in Namibia.Adolf Hitler Uunona has been elected with 85 percent of the vote for a seat on the regional council in the former German colony, where street names, people and places still have German names. However, Adolf Uunona as he…

The World Bank projects Namibia's extreme poverty rate to rise by nearly 2.7 percentage points in 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to widen existing large income gaps and increase the already extremely high inequality. According to the World Bank, those most affected by Covid-19 are people living in urban…

By AFP Dec 3, 2020Windhoek, Namibia - While many Namibians have names originating from the ex-colonial power Germany, a newly-elected municipal councillor has overnight romped to prominence not because of his victory but because he is called Adolf Hitler.Adolf Hitler Uunona, 54, a politician of the ruling SWAPO party was…

A man named after Adolf Hitler has won a local election in Namibia - but insists he has no plans for world domination.Uunona Adolf Hitler, 54, was elected as a local politician for the town of Ompundja, in the north of the country, with 85% of the vote. However, Mr…

Every year tourists from all over the world travel to Namibia to enjoy the country’s spectacular natural attractions.  Namibia welcomed over 1.6 million international tourists to its shores in 2019. Most visitors were from Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Angola, South Africa and Zambia. Namibia’s tourism industry has suffered intensely…

Protesters against sexual gender-based violence (SGBV) under the banner of #ShutItAllDown now plan to sue the police, alleging they were unlawfully arrested and detained on Saturday. The police arrested 24 of the protesters who are predominantly young women and four journalists on Saturday but later released them on a warning…

THE Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism says the ongoing fires in and around the Etosha National Park are under control. This is despite reports on and images of the blaze still ravaging the park. The ministry this week confirmed that the fires, which started about a week ago, are…

22-year-old Shanon Wasserfall was last seen on April 9, 2020 at Walvis Bay, a port town in west central Namibia. She was wearing white shorts, a blue jacket over a black top and had just dropped off her two-year-old child with a friend at Kuisebmond, eight minutes away. Wasserfall was…