Local media experts bemoaned the absence of a law on access to information after Reporters Without Borders ranked Namibia number one out of 54 countries in Africa. The World Press Freedom Index released on Thursday last week also ranked Namibia 23rd out of 180...
As a public service ahead of the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly Elections, the ACTION Coalition launched a briefing paper on Access to Information and Elections. This paper embraces a rights-sensitive approach to the holding and disclosure of election related...
BY THE NAMIBIAN (Editorial) President Hage Geingob and finance minister Calle Schlettwein are correct when they tell Namibians not to worry that China could ensnare the country into a debt trap. After all, the minister said Namibia’s debt to the dragon state is...
President Geingob recently made a spectacle out of scornfully singling out The Namibian newspaper, labelling it amongst his “enemies”, and threatened to hold the draft Access to Information (ATI) law hostage over critical coverage of his administration. The episode...
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