Namibia QER Quarter 2 2025
This edition of the IPPR’s Quarterly Economic Review looks at the economic issues raised by President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s plan to introduce free tertiary education. The QER also includes the usual Quarter Summary, News Highlights, Key Economic Variables, and Data Trends
AI & 2024 Election Disinformation
Election-related mis- and disinformation content took many forms on social media and messaging platforms ahead of and around the presidential and parliamentary elections of November 2024. AI-generated content formed an important part of disinformation campaigns in these spaces throughout the year
Disinformation & Foreign Influence
The electoral landscape was alive with claims, suspicions and speculation that foreign interests were meddling or attempting to do so, on behalf of local political actors, in the presidential and parliamentary elections of November 2024. Was there any truth to such perceptions and claims and is there something to be concerned about for the future?
Poor Journalism Fuels Election Disinformation
Poor reporting and media mistakes contributed to the spread of false information by amplifying smear campaigns and participating in narrative laundering in the run-up to and beyond the November 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections in Namibia.
Political Smear Campaigns
Political smear campaigns were deployed online ahead of the November 2024 elections. These campaigns were aimed at undermining the reputations, credibility and trust in particular candidates, parties and entities, including the electoral management body and the elections as a whole.
Abuse of Social Media & The 2024 Elections
Social media has become important for political communication and messaging, especially during electoral periods. However, often political actors (politicians and parties) use social media to engage in negative campaigning, by employing smears and spreading fake news or to intimidate and incite. This bulletin looks at how Namibian political actors, including politically connected or associated interests […]
Countering Election Disinformation
An overview of mis- and disinformation that affected Namibia’s 2024 national elections. The report is accompanied by five issue-specific bulletins that examine:
Public Procurement Court – Will It Work?
This 27th edition of Procurement Tracker Namibia asks whether the procurement court, proposed in recent legislative changes and promoted by President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as a way of dealing with delays in the system, could work work in practice? This edition also provides an update on the latest statistics from the Procurement Policy Unit.
Namibia QER Quarter 1 2025
This edition of the IPPR’s Quarterly Economic Review examines some of the main commitments contained in the 66-page Swapo Manifesto Implementation Plan (SMIP) published in February 2025. The QER also includes the usual Quarter Summary, News Highlights, Key Economic Variables, and Data Trends
Namibia’s National Budget 2025/26: Analysis
The national budget tabled by Minister of Finance Ericah Shafudah on 27 March 2025 represented continuity rather than change and reflected few of the priorities contained in the Swapo Manifesto or its Implementation Plan. Minister Shafudah recommitted government to achieving a primary budget surplus, reducing debt as a proportion of GDP, meeting the country’s foreign […]
