Namibia: Drought Relief Not Pro-Poor, Farmers Say

THE Namibian National Farmers Union (NNFU) has branded the N$218 million drought relief measures for farmers as 'not poor people friendly' and not being applied as envisaged.

The criticism is among the many that the union has levelled against the one- month- old relief plan.

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