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Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia 11 January – Test drilling for oil by Vancouver-Canada-based ReconAfrica (formerly Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd.) begins in the Kavango Region, Kavango West.
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 ...
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 ...
Namibia elected its first woman president with Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah winning last week’s presidential elections disputed by technical and logistical issues in the country. The 72-year-old, the ...
If things work out as Namibia’s long-time governing party hopes, the country will be electing its first female head of state this week. But a mood of disillusionment with liberation movements in ...
Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia. 31 January – The Namibian environment ministry announces that 61 black rhinoceros and 26 white rhinoceros were killed in the country in 2022 as a result of poaching, forty-six of whom were in Etosha National Park. [1]
About 280 million years ago, a large creature built somewhat like a salamander but with frightful fangs prowled the swamps and lakes of what is now Namibia, ambushing prey as a top predator in a ...
Source: [1]. 1 January - New Year's Day; 21 March - Independence Day 18 April – Good Friday 20 April - Easter Sunday 21 April - Easter Monday 1 May - International Workers' Day 4 May - Cassinga Day