Namibia
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Namibia called for increased international cooperation and partnerships to tackle illicit financial flows (IFFs) during Wednesday’s launch of a new initiative to strengthen financial integrity and support sustainable development. Maureen Hinda-Mbuende, Namibia’s deputy minister of finance and public enterprises, stressed the importance of global collaboration in combating IFFs, saying no country can effectively address IFFs…
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Namibia has secured more than two billion Namibia dollars (about 110 million U.S. dollars) from the World Bank for a major transmission network expansion and renewable energy integration project. The Transmission Expansion and Energy Storage (TEES) Project will include the development of a 465 km transmission line as well as the establishment of a utility-scale…
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In the Himba tribe of Namibia in Southern Africa, the date of birth of a child is fixed, not at the time of its arrival in the world, nor in its design, but much earlier: since the day the child is thought in His Mother’s mind. When a woman decides she’s going to have a…
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Namibia on Monday took delivery of 23 ancient pieces of jewelry, tools and other objects pillaged during colonial rule, and returned as an indefinite loan from Germany. The return of the artifacts is part of a project to encourage rapprochement between the two nations. “All the artifacts were collected during the Germany colonial era from…
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More than 100 years after the crimes were committed, Germany formally confessed on Friday to having committed genocide as the colonial power in what is now Namibia. After years of negotiations, the German government recognized the atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama ethnic groups as genocide and said reparations would be paid. “As a…
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