Month: December 2023

South Africa, battling crippling power blackouts, plans to add 2 500 megawatts of new nuclear generation, the government announced on Tuesday.

At least 100 elephants have died in Zimbabwe’s biggest national park as water holes have dried up, an international animal welfare group said on Monday.

President William Ruto said on Tuesday that Kenya was emerging “out of debt distress”, touting his economic policies despite public anger over tax hikes and slashed subsidies as the country marked its 60th independence anniversary.

The Arab bloc praised the outcome of the UN climate summit on Wednesday, calling it a “great success” after nations adopted a call to transition away from fossil fuels but stopped short of a phase-out.

The United States has struck hundreds of deals worth US$14.2 billion with African nations over the past year, government officials said on Wednesday, as Washington seeks to counter China’s growing influence on the continent.

Although the independent domestic airline, FlyNamibia, currently flies between Eros in Windhoek and Lüderitz every weekday, this route has become
increasingly more overcrowded due to significant oil discoveries made in the Orange Basin off the coast of southern Namibia.

The friendship shared between Namibia and the People’s Republic of China is deep-rooted, well before the founding of Namibia, China steadfastly supported Namibia’s quest for national independence.

To fortify Africa’s resilience against future pandemics, the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) teamed up with Illumina, a global leader in sequencing technology, and signed an agreement to expand the use of genomics in Africa to prepare for future pandemics and safeguard the health of Africans. 

First Lady Monica Geingos said inequality drives pandemics, compromise solutions, increase vulnerability to HIV, and impede access to healthcare services, standing in the way of people’s dignity and rights. 

Namibia is set to expand its power storage capacity in the energy sector with the introduction of the first-ever Omburu battery energy storage system (BESS).