WINDHOEK, Dec. 12 — Namibia has continued to strengthen its defenses against money laundering and financial crime, with the country recording steady improvement in the 2025 Basel Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Index, the Financial Intelligence Center (FIC) said Friday.
In a statement, the FIC said Namibia’s AML risk score improved to 4.78 in 2025, down from 4.89 in 2024 and 5.09 in 2023, where lower scores indicate reduced exposure to money laundering and financial crime risks.
It said that the latest ranking places Namibia as the fifth best-performing country in Africa, with one of the continent’s lowest financial crime risk profiles.
Namibia’s sustained improvement reflects coordinated efforts by supervisory authorities, law enforcement agencies, accountable and reporting institutions, and policymakers to strengthen compliance, coordination and enforcement across the national AML/CFT framework, the FIC said.
The progress also supports national development priorities under Namibia’s Sixth National Development Plan, which targets reducing illicit financial flows from nine percent of gross domestic product in 2024 to five percent by 2030, it added.
The Basel AML Index is a research-based tool that ranks countries by their risk of money laundering and financial crime, assessing factors such as AML/CFT frameworks, corruption, financial transparency and governance. (Namibia Daily News / Xinhua)
