Over the weekend, various media outlets published misleading headlines that Namibia and Botswana had scrapped the use of passports for travellers between the two countries.
The reports come from remarks made by Namibian President Hage Geingob during his speech at the inaugural session of the Botswana-Namibia Bi-National Commission in Gaborone on Friday. While the countries have agreed to explore the use of IDs as travel documents in place of passports, there has been not yet been official…