WORKING PAPER SERIES WP 2026/04 | August 2026 Namibia is entering a resource moment. Deep-water oil in the Orange Basin and a continental-scale green hydrogen build-out will draw foreign labour into an economy with among the highest unemployment and inequality…
The Namibia Diverse Women’s Association (NDWA) and the NMT Media Foundation released ‘The Digital Closet’ on 11 December 2024, a landmark study authored by Survey Warehouse’s Christiaan Keulder, exploring the profound effects of online hate speech on Namibia’s LGBT+ community. This comprehensive…
Most members of the community (94%) have experienced hate speech whilst being online during the past year, and nearly 3 in five (59%) personally experienced intersecting hate speech. More than two in 3 (69%) reported that such experiences increased over…
Almost three-quarters of Namibians went without enough food to eat at least once during the previous year, a recent Afrobarometer survey indicates.
During the same period, more than six in 10 citizens experienced shortages of cooking fuel at least once.