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The High Court of Namibia rules that two colonial-era laws criminalizing sex between men are unconstitutional.
2024-06-21

Oman's Supreme Committee announces that all incoming expatriates over the age of 18 years who want to enter the country must show proof of at least two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine as well as a negative PCR test from the previous 72 hours. They also announce that the ban on travelers from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Mozambique will be lifted.
2021-12-26

Canada, the EU, Israel, Japan, Morocco, the Philippines, Singapore, Turkey, the UAE, the UK, and the U.S. ban flights from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, and Eswatini due to the Omicron variant.
2021-11-26

Namibia bans all imports of poultry and poultry products from South Africa due to an outbreak of avian influenza that was detected there.
2021-05-17

The cabinet announces that 20 of South Africa's land borders with Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe will reopen on February 15.
2021-02-13

Namibia reports a new single-day record of 324 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic to 16,097.
2020-12-11

Icelandic fishing company Samherji announces it will cease operations in Namibia. The company was embroiled in a bribery scandal there that resulted in the resignation of Namibian Fisheries Minister Bernhardt Esau and Justice Minister Sacky Shanghala, as well as the arrest of two employees of South African banking corporation Investec.
2020-01-17

The wreckage of LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 that went missing Friday is found in Namibia in the Bwabwata National Park with all 33 people on board having died.
2013-11-30

Police discover a detonator, batteries and a ticking clock in Namibia's Windhoek Airport apparently due to be loaded on an aircraft bound for Munich, Germany.
2010-11-18

Three Namibian women sue the state after they are sterilised without their informed consent after being diagnosed as HIV positive.
2010-06-1