The Council of the Municipality of Walvis Bay re-tabled its 2021-2022 budget during an Extraordinary Council Meeting on Monday night.
The tabling of the budget was initially scheduled to be ta-bled in mid-May. Council decided on 11 May to delay tab-ling the budget, as it needed more time to incorporate ideas and inputs made by members of the public during three consul-tative public meetings earlier.
This is the first bud-get by the newly elected Town Council which comprises of a ruling coalition of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), the Joint Wal-vis Bay Residents Association, and the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM). The budget has been described in recent days as the “Budget for the People, by the People”, as it incorporated inputs made by members of the public during public consultative meetings.
Namibia's opposition party the Popular Democratic Movement wants the Botswana-Namibia 2018 border treaty revoked pending consultations with the public.
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The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) wants the Botswana-Namibia ratified 2018 boundary treaty recalled and revoked pending consultations with the public.
The demand comes after the communities living along the Namibia-Botswana border in the Zambezi Region started complaining of harassment by the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) within Namibia.
This week, Germany and France made historic gestures seeking forgiveness in Africa after Berlin acknowledged its former colonial empire committed genocide in Namibia and Paris took responsibility for its role in not doing more to stop the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
France’s President Emmanuel Macron, center, inspects the guard of honor accompanied by Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame, center-left, at the presidential palace in Kigali, Rwanda, on Thursday. (AP Photo/Nicholas Garriga)
(CN) Germany on Friday said it officially recognizes it ordered a genocide against two African ethnic groups at the start of the 20
th century in what today is Namibia and set up a $1.35 billion aid fund to help mend the horrors of the past.