Windhoek, Mar. 23 (BNA): Namibia's newly elected President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah pledged to boost investments in the agricultural sector and diversify the resource-focused economy in an attempt to address high unemployment rates.

According to Reuters, Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, became Namibia's first female president, securing victory in both the presidential and parliamentary elections in November.

She also committed to diversifying the economy, enabling citizens to "derive maximum benefits from our country's natural resources, through value addition".

Diversification, she added, would "create jobs to take care of the unemployed, of which the majority are the youth."

Z.H, S.H.A