Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) director general Paulus Noa says ACC officials are not above the law. Noa was speaking during the commemoration of International Anti-Corruption Day, which coincided with the opening of a new office at Rundu in the Kavango East…

A shortage of ballot papers and mounting frustrations among voters turned election day into a tense and challenging experience for presiding officer Rikambura Katjiuanjo at the Elisenheim Estate B polling station. “I was very scared,” Katjiuanjo said in a recent…

This month’s US election marks what Germans call a Zeitenwende (‘turning point’). True, political parties that promised to protect the status quo have lost elections in country after country this year. But the significance of voters in the world’s oldest…

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 southern Africa, coupled with the anti-incumbency feeling in…

Rights activist Cidia Chissungo has spent the last few days poring over images she never thought she’d see in Mozambique. There are pictures of young men with bloodied bodies pockmarked with bullet wounds, and teenagers with eyes swollen shut from…

The man credited with transforming Singapore from a slum city state into one of the wealthiest countries in the world, Lee Kuan Yew, once said the reason why African countries such as Nigeria and Congo remain poor despite their abundance…

Hyphen Hydrogen Energy’s chief executive, Marco Raffinetti, says any hint of corruption in the country’s emerging green hydrogen sector could destroy projects. Raffinetti says Hyphen’s concession agreement with the government includes explicit anti-corruption measures. “We have zero tolerance written into…

The government is in the process of setting up a national situation room for multi-hazard early warnings. This was announced by deputy prime minister and minister of works and transport John Mutorwa at yesterday’s ‘Early Warning For All Multi-Stakeholder Forum’…

… Swapo tells poverty-stricken Tobias Hainyeko residents the party has done a lot to help Just be thankful for Swapo’s efforts in supporting your constituency. This is what Andreas Mwashekele, a member of Swapo’s Tobias Hainyeko constituency executive, has to…

Katima Mulilo chief executive Raphael Liswaniso says minister of urban and rural development Erastus Uutoni’s delays in project approvals are hampering the development of the town. Liswaniso shared these sentiments with a parliamentary standing committee on public accounts and economy…

Mozambicans are voting in a general election, with the ruling Frelimo party that has been in power for half a century likely to hold on to power. President Filipe Nyusi, who is stepping down after serving the two-term limit, was…

Capitalising on the immense potential of the AfCFTA agreement, Namibia is set to send its first consignment through the AfCFTA agreement in October. The minister of industrialisation and trade, Lucia Iipumbu, has said this follows the AfCFTA secretariat approving Namibia’s…