Politics
The ruling party, SWAPO, and the new opposition party, Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) contested the first town council election in Omuthiya in the Oshikoto Region. On 24 April, a rally of 200 took place in Windhoek against the porting of the Chinese ship the An Yue Jiang at Walvis Bay.
In May 2008, Ignatius Shixwameni, a former SWAPO and Congress of Democrats (CoD) member, who split from CoD in December 2007, forms the All People's Party.
In June 2008, the Democratic Party of Namibia was formed in Karas Region. Though the CoD's Ben Ulenga criticized the party and others as "tribal", the DPN rejected the sentiment.
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