Namibia

MONEY OUT OF EIB IN 1992

According to the 1992 annual report recently issued by the European Investment Bank (EIB), only a third of its credits [...]

SEISMIC SURVEY ON RANGER BLOCK FINISHED

Ranger Oil has completed a seismic study on its offshore [...]

BETTER MAIZE HARVEST DUE IN 1993

According to the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the next Maize harvest in Southern African countries belonging to the association [...]

SYSMIN SUBSIDY

Namibia has obtained the Sysmin financing it was expecting before the staging of a conference this month in Windhoek on [...]

The new regional offshore seismic survey awarded to Nopec (AEM [...]

OCCIDENTAL ON ETOSHA

Following in the footsteps of OPIC of Taiwan, which eventually [...]

OFFSHORE SEISMIC SURVEY

The Norwegian company Nopec has begun a multi-client 2-D seismic [...]

PARTNERSHIP PRIME MOVER FOR ACODA

The Association for Cooperation and Development in Southern Africa (Acoda) led by former Euro MP and member of the conservative [...]

SYSMIN PROJECT: PRESSURE RISES

The lobby that promotes Namibia's interests with European institutions has been urging the EC Commission in Brussels to announce its [...]

GEORGES KIEJMAN

The French junior minister for foreign affairs left Paris on [...]

CHEVRON/ENGEN FOR FOURTH BLOCK

Only weeks after Sasol was awarded the third Namibia offshore permit following the 1991 invitation to tender (AEM 94) another [...]

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HYDROELECTRIC COLLAPSE

Southern African power companies are being forced to make ever-increasing power cuts because of low water levels due to the unprecedented drought that has gripped the south-east corner of the continent this year. In Tanzania, the Tanzania Electric Supply Corp.

THIRD BLOCK GOES TO SASOL

The Namibian energy ministry is expected to sign an exploration agreement with Sasol by early October that will make the [...]

DECISION ON EPUPA IN EARLY 1993

Windhoek's decision on the construction of the Epupa hydro-electric dam situated downstream from the Ruacana dam on the Cunene river [...]

NEW US SUGAR QUOTAS

The United States has decided to cut preferential or tax free sugar quotas by eleven percent from October 1, 1992, [...]

AFRICAN TRADE SHOWS

A pan-African air show is to take place in the capital of Zimbabwe, Harare from 8 to 10 December 1992. [...]

QUESTIONS OVER ALUMINIUM PROJECT

Windhoek has signed an agreement for the development of gas at Kudu and the construction of an aluminium smelter with [...]

DESTINATION WASHINGTON

Apart from the large delegation of African National Congress (ANC) lawyers from South Africa and three members of the Ethiopian [...]

RANGER WINS SECOND PERMIT

The independent Canadian company Ranger Oil has been awarded the second block to be handed out in the Namibian offshore [...]