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

Namibia declares an outbreak after a person dies of Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever in Windhoek.
2023-05-23

The Namibian environment ministry announces that 61 black rhinoceros and 26 white rhinoceros were killed in the country in 2022 as a result of poaching, including 46 in Etosha National Park.
2023-01-31

Namibia drops its requirement of face mask and mandatory PCR COVID-19 test for vaccinated visitors as the number of cases falls.
2022-03-15

Indonesia bans foreigners who have travelled to South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Mozambique, Eswatini and Nigeria in the past 14 days amid the emergence of the Omicron variant.
2021-11-28

The Federal Government of Germany officially recognizes the country's perpetration of the Herero and Namaqua genocide during its colonial rule of Namibia. German foreign minister Heiko Maas pledges reparations worth €1.1 billion (US$1.34 billion) for the descendants of the Herero and Nama people to be paid within 30 years.
2021-05-28

Namibia reports its first two cases of COVID-19. President Hage Geingob says he imposes a travel ban to and from Qatar, Ethiopia and Germany for 30 days.
2020-03-14

Hage Geingob wins his elect to become President of Namibia as his ruling SWAPO party wins an overwhelming majority in the National Assembly.
2014-11-28

LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 carrying 27 passengers and six crew members disappears in Namibia.
2013-11-29

The death toll from flooding in South Africa rises to 70 and more than 8,000 families are homeless. Five other nearby countries - Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe - are threatened by killer heavy rains.
2011-01-22