The ''Namibian Sun'' is a daily

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newspaper in

Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

. It was launched on 20 September 2007 as a weekly tabloid newspaper published on Thursdays. The initial print run was planned to be 36,000 copies. The paper publishes mostly in

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with some pages in '' Oshiwambo'' and targets a readership aged between 18 and 40. It has been published daily since 2010. The ''Namibian Sun'' is published by

Namibia Media Holdings Namibia Media Holdings (NMH, previously Democratic Media Holdings, DMH) is a publishing house in Namibia. Founded in 1992, it publishes three major Namibian newspapers, the Afrikaans-language '' Republikein'', the German ''Allgemeine Zeitung'', ...

(formerly Democratic Media Holdings ) which also publishes ''

Allgemeine Zeitung The ''Allgemeine Zeitung'' was the leading political daily journal in Germany in the first part of the 19th century. It has been widely recognised as the first world-class German journal and a symbol of the German press abroad. The ''Allgemein ...

'' and ''

Die Republikein ''Republikein'' () is an Afrikaans-language newspaper published daily in Namibia and the country's largest Afrikaans-language newspaper in terms of print circulation. Its editor-in-chief is Dani Booysen. History The newspaper was founded by Di ...

''. While ''AZ'' has a German-speaking readership, and ''Republikein'' targets Afrikaans speakers, the ''Namibian Sun'' focuses on an English-speaking audience. It is similar to the South African '' Daily Sun'' in layout and features.Rothe, ''Media System and News Selections in Namibia'', p. 37.

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* {{Official, http://namibiansun.com 2007 establishments in Namibia English-language newspapers published in Namibia Ovambo-language mass media Daily newspapers published in Namibia Publications established in 2007