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9/29/2025

Namibia has sent more than 500 soldiers to help battle a huge wildfire that has burned across 30% of the country’s best-known national park.

5/28/2025

Namibia has held its first Genocide Remembrance Day to commemorate tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people killed by German colonisers in the early 1900s, in what is widely considered the first genocide of the 20th c...

12/13/2024

Two Namibian opposition parties that are seeking to challenge the result of elections last month won a court order on Friday allowing them to inspect election materials they had requested to see.

12/3/2024

Namibia's ruling SWAPO party led both the presidential and parliamentary races on Tuesday, a week after voting took place in an election marred by technical challenges.

12/2/2024

The candidate for Namibia’s ruling party led Monday in early results of a presidential election characterized by technical problems which caused voting to be extended for three days.

11/27/2024

Voters waited in long queues outside polling stations in Namibia's capital Windhoek on Wednesday morning to cast their ballots for a new president and parliament in what could be a tough election to win for the ruling SW...

11/25/2024

Namibians will vote on Wednesday in what is expected to be the most competitive election yet for the ruling SWAPO party, which has governed the southern African nation for 34 years.

10/23/2024

As Namibia prepares to hold a general election next month, the country's main opposition party has objected to the South African company hired to print the ballots.

6/21/2024

In a landmark ruling for gay rights campaigners, laws banning same-sex acts between men have been ruled unconstitutional in Namibia.

9/27/2023

South Africa was Namibia’s ‘preferred supplier’ of chicken, but it also imports poultry from Europe and South America.

5/16/2023

Same-sex marriages legally concluded outside Namibia must be recognised by the Namibian government, the Supreme Court has ruled in a historic judgement.

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