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2021 in Namibia. 1 language. ... 2024; Decades: 2000s; 2010s; 2020s; See also: Other events of 2021; Timeline of Namibian history; Events in the year 2021 in Namibia
General elections were held in Namibia to elect a new president and members of the National Assembly. [1] [2] [3] Initially scheduled on 27 November 2024, these were later extended in some areas to 30 November due to poor planning. Opposition parties decried the move, boycotting the declaration of results and pledging to challenge the results ...
4 February: President of Namibia Hage Geingob dies at the age of 82. [1] 4 February: Vice-President Nangolo Mbumba is sworn in as 4th President of Namibia; 16 April: Eleven inmates escape from a prison in Katima Mulilo, Zambezi Region. [2] 21 June: A high court rules that two colonial-era laws criminalizing gay sex between men are ...
United Nations Commissioner for South West Africa was a post created by the United Nations General Assembly in 1966 to assert the UN's direct responsibility for South West Africa which was then under illegal occupation by apartheid South Africa. [1] UNGA renamed the post United Nations Commissioner for Namibia in 1968. [2]
Current Missions Past Missions UN refugee camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. IDP camp in Sudan resulting from the Darfur conflict.. This is a list of United Nations peacekeeping missions since the United Nations was founded in 1945, organized by region, with the dates of deployment, the name of the related conflict, and the name of the UN operation.
The National Council is the upper chamber of Namibia's bicameral Parliament. It reviews bills passed by the lower chamber and makes recommendations for legislation of regional concern to the lower chamber. [3] The 42 National Council members are indirectly elected by regional councils for a term of five years. [4]
Namibia is a dominant-party state with the South-West Africa People's Organisation in power. Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power. In Namibian politics, ethnicity plays a significant role in party affiliation and voting behaviour.
Elections in Namibia determine who holds public political offices in the country.Namibia is a semi-presidential representative democratic republic. It runs direct elections every five years for the position of the president and seats in the National Assembly, and every six years for the Regional Councils and the distribution of seats in local authorities.