SDG 2: zero hunger Policies are at the core of eradicating hunger and many African countries are now aligning the SDGs with national development plans By Esther Ngumbi Despite the progress made over the past few...
Namibia
Lots of talk, little progress
SDG 4: Education Quality education in Africa looks like a hopeless case, but it’s a matter of taking the right steps By Munyaradzi Makoni Africa has high levels of inequality, between regions and within nations. Its...
History repeats itself
Namibia: apartheid-era tactics By Frederico Links In April 2018, Namibia’s Central Intelligence Service (NCIS) attempted to block the publication of a report by the weekly The Patriot newspaper alleging widespread...
Lessons for Africa
Namibia: ethnicity and politics In the context of deep ethnic divisions and conflicts on the African continent perhaps Namibia is getting some important things right When Hage Geingob was declared the ruling South West...
Africa’s ‘First Peoples’ are gaining ground
The past 20 years have seen a complete transformation of the political and legal landscape for Africa’s indigenous people The term “indigenous people”, and the identification of particular groups in these terms, evokes...
Into the Blue
Namibia's plans for seabed mining demonstrate some of the opportunities and challenges involved in unlocking the ocean economy Hailed by the African Union (AU) as the "new frontier of African renaissance", the idea of...
