The Opuwo Town Council owes about N$60 million to NamWater amid critical water challenges, which continue to affect households, businesses, and overall economic productivity. 

Kinshasa residents described the struggle to fill up their vehicles and motorcycles, saying they were being forced onto the black market as pump shortages worsened and the fallout from Trump's Iran war deepened Africa's fuel crisis.

The disruption of businesses by the COVID-19 pandemic might have long passed, but some businesses have not yet fully recovered financially, especially in the informal sector.
In this insert, NBC News brings you some of the untold stories of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in neighboring countries threatens Namibia's economic growth, disrupts trade, impacts animal health, and reduces income.|

This was the combined view of industry experts on the prevailing FMD outbreak in South Africa, Botswana, and Lesotho.
 

Trade tariffs imposed by the United States are negatively affecting Namibia's export earnings, having disrupted established value chains and decreasing competitiveness in traded goods.

The unrest in Congo has significantly impacted trade between Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). 

A recent check by nbc's Zambian correspondent, Wamundila Chilinda, revealed that not a single Namibian truck was present at the Kasumbalesa border facility between Zambia and the DRC. 

Namibia Ceramics, a manufacturing construction plant site located in Tsumeb, is the brainchild of Heikky Katti, a local man who came up with the business idea in 2017.