The following lists events that happened during
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
in
Namibia.
Incumbents
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President:
Sam Nujoma
*
Prime Minister:
Hage Geingob
*
Chief Justice:
Ismael Mahomed
Events
August
* August 10 - Military experts from Namibia, Zimbabwe,
Zambia and
Tanzania are due in
Kinshasa
Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one o ...
later this week to investigate allegations of
Rwanda
Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...
n and
Ugandan troops being sent across the border.
September
* September 3 -
South Africa now says it supports the intervention of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo by Namibia,
Zimbabwe and
Angola, supporting Kabila.
References
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