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Namibia (Vol 18, 2021)

in Africa Yearbook Online
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Henning Melber
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Namibians continued to battle with the devastating economic impact of the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, with the highest recorded rate of incidences worldwide in June. Continued socioeconomic decline, growing unemployment, and frustration over corruption scandals and other forms of self-enrichment by a political and administrative elite remained topics of domestic policy. Debates in the national assembly showed the deepening divide between government and opposition, though no major political changes took place. A bilateral Joint Declaration initialled with Germany over the genocide committed during 1904 to 1908 drew massive criticism from the descendants of the most affected population groups and dominated parliamentary debate for two months.

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