Sweden actively supported the liberation movement during apartheid and continues to support Namibia in strengthening its democracy and improving living conditions.

The traditional development cooperation with Namibia is now focusing on broader cooperation built on co-financed partnerships within areas such as trade and investments, institutional cooperation and the civil society, called participant cooperation. Participant cooperation focuses on broadening and extending relations between the two our countries. The target is for the relations to exist without aid contributions. Read more here.

Namibia was one of the two countries studied in the REPORT Market study RMG 20110630 about the mineral market, by the Raw Materials Group. (June, 2011).

MeetingPoints Mining and Raw Materials Group have done an extensive report on the mineral resources in Namibia.  (2009).