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.

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 ...

Five countries — Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe — have declared national disasters over the drought and resultant hunger. The WFP estimates that some 21 million children in ...

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 ...

The region is experiencing the worst drought in 40 years, primarily affecting Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Angola, Botswana and Lesotho due to the El Nino weather phenomenon that ...

The extreme drought severely affected public life in many countries in Central and Southern Europe between June and August in the summer of 2022. For example, half the population in Italy faced ...

About 77% of the mainland U.S. is abnormally dry, and almost half of the country is experiencing drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The spatial pattern of the dry conditions varies ...

Thursday the latest Drought Monitor was released and it confirmed what many of us already know — the drought is getting worse. For the last two weeks, the entire region was classified as ...

Last Thursday, the state issued a drought watch, urging residents and businesses to voluntarily conserve water after three months of below-average rainfall accompanied by above-average ...

Drought conditions ramped up in the state in the past week. The weekly report from the U.S. Drought Monitor, released each Thursday (and shown at the top of this post), indicates worsening ...

Just shy of 80 percent of the country is under at least abnormal dryness, with more than 45 percent in drought. Many locations from Texas northward to the Midwest, through the South and into the ...

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.