Namibian president appoints business rescue team for COVID-19 ravaged economy

FILE PHOTO: File photo: Namibia's incumbent President Hage Geingob has won the 2019 presidential election with 56.3% of the vote, the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) said on Saturday Nov. 30, 2019. He is pictured here at the World Economic Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, September 5, 2019. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham/File Photo

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Article highlights:

  • Namibian President Hage Geingob appointed an 11-member Business Rescue Task Force to review business and insolvency legislation with the aim of rescuing businesses in financial distress;
  • Namibia is in the midst of a deadly third wave of infections that is threatening to take more businesses under;
  • It will also recommend policy options, approaches and amendments to specific laws and regulations required to strengthen entrepreneurship;
  • Debt-laden Air Namibia, which had been struggling even before COVID-19, was placed into voluntary liquidation this year.