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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Namibia ( ICAN) is a professional accountancy body in Namibia. It is the sole organisation in Namibia with the right to award the Chartered Accountant designation. [citation needed] ICAN is a member of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). [1] ICAN was a charter member of the Pan African ...
Islam is a minority religion in Namibia, with a small but longstanding presence in the country. Islam first took root during the late 1800s in Namibia in the port city of Luderitz where a small community of Indian traders and merchants settled in the late 1800s. These early Muslims built the first mosque in Namibia, which still stands today and ...
Politics of Namibia. The Namibian Ministry of Finance ( MOF) was established at Namibian independence in 1990. The first Namibian minister of finance was German Namibian Otto Herrigel. [1] The current finance minister is Iipumbu Shiimi, a former governor of the Bank of Namibia. [2]
Namibia and Botswana have been considering collaboration on development of new fiber-optic communications to bypass South Africa, in an effort to reduce costs. In 2008, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe held a legal joint sale behind closed doors in Namibia of seven tons of ivory, earning more than US$1.18 million, to Chinese and ...
2013. Namib Sand Sea is the only coastal desert in the world that includes extensive dune fields influenced by fog. Covering an area of over three million hectares and a buffer zone of 899,500 hectares, the site is composed of two dune systems, an ancient semi-consolidated one overlain by a younger active one. The desert dunes are formed by the ...
List of ports and harbours in Namibia. / 22.933°S 14.500°E / -22.933; 14.500 ( Port of Walvis Bay) Large-sized port and major port of Namibia. [1] / 26.633°S 15.150°E / -26.633; 15.150 ( Port of Lüderitz) Medium-sized port. It is developed around Robert Harbour and Shark Island. The maximum draught of the port is 7. ...
The country's leading LGBT advocacy group is OutRight Namibia, [citation needed] formed in March 2010 and officially registered in November 2010. It has organised Namibia's first pride parades and seeks to be "a voice for lesbian women, gay men, bisexuals and transgender and intersex people in Namibia".
Namibia ( / nəˈmɪbiə / ⓘ, / næˈ -/ ), [15] [16] officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the east and south. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres ...