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Foot-and-Mouth Restrictions Push ||Kharas Farmers to the Brink
In Namibia’s southern ||Kharas region, a catastrophic economic squeeze is unfolding across commercial feedlots and small-scale communal homesteads alike. Sweeping foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) movement...
High Tides and Higher Returns: Inside Namibia’s Booming Seafood Export Sector
The waters along the Southwest African coastline are proving to be liquid gold for Namibia. Driven by an appetite for quality seafood across Europe...
The legal, trade and compliance implications of FMD outbreak
By PATRICK KAUTA*
Since being confirmed on 23 September 2026, Namibia’s foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak has escalated into a major regional livestock trade issue. The...
Drought Risk Becomes Namibia’s Economic Imperative
Namibia is moving drought higher up its economic agenda, calling for a fundamental shift from crisis response towards investment in resilience as recurring dry...
From Shared Struggle to Shared Dividends, Namibia Presses Angola for Results
Namibia wants its shared history with Angola to start paying economic dividends. Addressing Angola’s National Assembly, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah urged lawmakers to turn the...
Prasl farmer now grows 30 tons of potatoes per hectare
By DIONÍSIO NOVELE*
In Boane, Maputo Province of Mozambique, Arlindo Elias Massingue’s fields tell a story of persistence, learning, and change. At 47 years old...
The Coca-Cola System Drives USD 3.6 Billion Economic Impact and Supports...
In 2024, the Coca-Cola system contributed USD 3.6 billion in value-added economic activity across the COMESA region.
The Coca-Cola system and its value...
Namibia Courts American Bloodlines to Keep Its Herds Strong
Livestock producers in Namibia are looking across the Atlantic for the animals and genetics that will build their herds, as regional disease pressures make...
Hapag-Lloyd Establishes New Footholds in Southern and East Africa
Closer access to customers in Southern and East Africa is driving the latest phase of Hapag-Lloyd’s continental expansion, with new offices in Walvis Bay,...
EU Remains Core Market for Namibian High-Value Fruit Exports
Namibia’s high-value fresh produce sector continued its strong momentum across European markets in 2025, with more than half of the nation's fruit and vegetable...
