The Cabinet has approved recommendations from the National Drought Platform on issues such ... and stated that Namibia should allocate about 5% of the national budget to water and sanitation ...

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia has lowered its economic growth forecast for this year, Finance Minister Iipumbu Shiimi said on Wednesday, citing a slump in demand for diamonds and a severe drought.

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Namibia’s central bank unveiled a policy to provide financial relief to the country’s drought-hit farming industry. The plan, which took effect Oct. 23, mandates lenders to offer loan ...

Otjozondjupa farmer Jannie Labuschagne says he lost 17 sheep worth N$30 000 in nine days due to drought. He says this ... lost free zone status to export to Namibia. "No animal feed from Angola ...

Namibia currently exports 10,000 tonnes of beef a year to the European Union. A five-year drought in southern Africa has caused plunging dam levels in Zambia and Zimbabwe which have resulted in power ...

Arid Namibia is among a handful of southern African countries to have suffered the worst drought in the region in decades. "The revisions stem primarily from expected lower output from the mining ...

I am about to book a Namibian trip for this september (this forum has helped a lot) I have just talked with a colleague that visited Namibia and Botswana this august. He has told me that there is a ...

Zimbabwe has decided to cull 200 elephants following an earlier declaration of a national state of disaster caused by the drought ... Angola and Namibia, making the region home to one of the ...