Namibia: Home Affairs Out of Passports - Again

FRUSTRATED Namibians waiting for passports will have to wait longer as the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration has run out of blank green passports.

The ministry is issuing 'brown passports', which are issued as an alternative, and are fully compliant with normal international standards. But some countries, especially in Europe, refuse to recognise them.

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