The Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Kalumbi Shangula, has dismissed allegations that Namibia has signed the WHO Pandemic Treaty, which is yet to be adopted since negotiations are ongoing. Dr. Shangula was responding to allegations by the president of the Republican Party that by signing the treaty, Namibia would lose its sovereignty and be...
The Namibian Lives Matter (NLMM) movement has implored the government to engage the Botswana government on considering the impact of the 2018 border treaty on the residents of the Zambezi region. In 2018, president Hage Geingob and the former president of Botswana, Ian Khama, signed the historic Boundary Treaty, which reaffirmed colonial delimitation and clearly...
MOSCOW, Nov. 7 — Russia has formally withdrawn from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) at midnight Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on its website Tuesday. “As of 00:00 hours on November 7, 2023, the CFE withdrawal procedure for Russia, which was suspended by our country in 2007, has been completed....
Niël Terblanché Namibia has welcomed the establishment of the new Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) global treaty on the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources The treaty, under the auspices of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), was adopted by consensus during a meeting in New York. Ministry of...
By Elezo Libanda Katima Mulilo, July 9 – Increasing tension looms between citizens of Botswana and Namibia as the people living along the border lines face ongoing intimidation from the Botswana Defence Force. Particularly along the Chobe River, residents live in constant fear, with fishing becoming a thing of the past as their nets are...