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Namibia’s President Hage Geingob has declared a three-day period of national mourning for late Zambian president Rupiah Banda who died last week.

Namibia’s national petroleum company has signed an oil exploration and production agreement with a Qatari government-owned energy firm, according to reports monitored here on Thursday.

The Namibian government is closely monitoring the situation in Ukraine and liaising with authorities in neighbouring countries to facilitate the safe passage of 114 Namibians stranded in Kiev, a senior official said on Tuesday.

The recent discovery of oil in Namibia is a gamechanger for the country and should be managed well in order to avoid the pitfalls that have befallen other countries before, an energy expert said on Thursday.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has lifted travel restrictions imposed late last year on travellers from Namibia and 11 other African countries at the height of global concerns over the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

Namibia has had to destroy more than 150,000 doses of expired COVID-19 vaccines due to the slow response to the government’s vaccination programme, President Hage Geingob announced on Monday.

Parliamentarians from southern Africa on Tuesday called for “remedial measures” to address the problem of ever-mutating COVID-19 variants and avoid economic disruptions such as the current travel bans imposed by most Western countries on people travelling from the region.

Namibia is making progress in its efforts to harness hydrogen as a clean source of energy as country seeks to promote net-zero emissions over the next few years, President Hage Geingob said on Thursday.

Scores of Namibians staged a protest in the capital Windhoek on Tuesday against an agreement reached in May by the government of the southwest African country and Germany over compensation for a 1900s genocide committed by Berlin.

United States Navy vessel USS Hershel “Woody” Williams arrived in Walvis Bay on Thursday on a visit that will see it conducting joint military exercises with the Namibian Navy.