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A New Minister in Namibia 📰Namibia has appointed a journalist as its new Minister of Industry and Mines. 🌐 The President of Namibia has nominated Modestus Amutse — a former journalist, deputy minister of information, and chair of the parliamentary committee on legal and constitutional affairs — as the country’s new Minister of Industry, Energy and Mines. Namibia is a major producer of uranium and diamonds, and has discovered large offshore oil reserves in the Orange Basin. Its first crude production may begin around 2030. 🚩 The ministerial seat Amutse has received is highly influential but also volatile — the president frequently reshuffles industrialisation ministers, and for a brief period in October she even held the portfolio herself. ⏩ Amutse’s appointment may reflect a desire to install someone from outside the entrenched industrial and mining networks, someone who would be less tied to existing elites and more directly accountable to the president. 🔸Alternatively, his background in PR and IT may have been decisive factor - instrumental in terms of establishing new communication patterns and maintaining stronger informational oversight over miners. Devils Below