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Namibia had no power to cancel Chinese miner’s licence, court rules

Namibia had no power to cancel Chinese miner’s licence, court rules

NAMIBIA'S mines minister did not have the power to cancel a Chinese lithium miner's licence and should have approached the courts to revoke it, a judge ruled. Lithium miner Xinfeng took Namibia's mines minister Tom Alweendo to court after he cancelled the company's mining licence in April and ordered it to stop operations by May 31. The minister accused the company of obtaining the licence after a flawed application process. Xinfeng challenged the minister's decision in Namibia's High Court, arguing that Alweendo did not have the power to revoke his earlier decision to grant the mining licence. "The first respondent…
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Germany to atone for Namibian colonial horrors

Germany to atone for Namibian colonial horrors

NYASHA NYAUNGWA GERMANY has agreed to fund projects in Namibia worth more than a billion euros over 30 years to atone for its role in genocide and property seizures in its-then colony more than a century ago, a Namibian government spokesman has announced. Thousands of Herero and Nama people were killed by German colonial forces between 1904 and 1908, after the tribes rebelled against German rule in the colony, then named German South West Africa. Survivors were driven into the desert, where many ended up in concentration camps to be used as slave labour and many died from cold, malnutrition…
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