The coronavirus is not the only thing which has dampened Namibia's independence celebrations. After 30 years of stability, the country must reckon with racial tensions, a stagnant economy and growing ...

Sam Nujoma at a rally in 2004: when Namibia became independent he said the country needed to ‘unlearn, forget and leave the sad chapter behind us’ - Themba Hadebe/AP Sam Nujoma, who has died aged 95, ...

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Dirk Mudge, a white Namibian who began his political life with the pro-Apartheid National Party but later lobbied for Namibia's independence from South African white-minority rule ...

On the 21st March 1990, Namibia gained her independence. On that day, the Founding President and Father of the Namibian Nation, Dr. Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma declared, “ I move in the name of the people ...

Namibia's founding father Sam Nujoma, who led his country's fight for independence from South Africa, died Saturday aged 95, the presidency announced. Nujoma had been hospitalised over the past three ...

JOHANNESBURG – The southern African nation of Namibia is voting in parliamentary and presidential elections expected to deliver a comfortable win for the ruling party, which has been in power since ...

Finnish diplomat and statesman, Martti Ahtisaari (86), who died earlier this month, played a key role in the way in which Namibia became independent. He not only headed the United Nations Transitional ...

Namibia celebrates 26 August as Heroes’ Day. It recalls the first military encounter between the South African army and members of the South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo), Namibia’s ...

The birth of a nation is almost always followed by the issuance of stamps, an act that helps establish its legitimacy. Namibia gained its independence from South Africa last week and issued three ...

Windhoek — People often talk about economic independence, but do we know what it entails? Despite achieving national independence many years ago, nearly all sub-Saharan African countries are ...

Henning Melber is a member of SWAPO since 1974. He is the author of Understanding Namibia. The Trials of Independence and A Decade of Namibia – Politics, Economy and Society. Visitors to “the land of ...

Seen from a distance, the process that carries Americans into this year`s presidential election is astounding. It is a classic exercise of people from diverse backgrounds speaking resolutely with the ...