Germany pledges 20m-euro soft loan to Namibia to support SMEs, rural families

By Andrei Skvarsky.

The German government has pledged a concessional loan of 325m Namibian dollars (20m euros) to Namibia under a November 15 agreement to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and rural and remotely-located households in the African country.

The money would be provided by German state-owned development bank KfW to Namibian national postal operator NamPost.

A NamPost financial subsidiary, PostFin, would distribute it as microloans among about 28,000 SMEs and households, with a focus on women and disadvantaged persons, according to the German embassy in Windhoek. 

The loan is expected to promote financial inclusion and help reduce poverty.

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