Swapo decided at its retreat in Windhoek in December to hold its extraordinary congress on 28 February to endorse Nandi-Ndaitwah as party president. The vice president position will remain vacant.

The Swapo Party, paying tribute to founding president Sam Nujoma in a statement on Sunday, said a giant has fallen.Nujoma died in a Windhoek hospital on Saturday at the age of 95."A giant of our ...

Like many African leaders of his era, he was shaped by the struggle for resistance against colonial oppression. This was no ...

Nujoma has been called the country's founding father after leading the fight for independence from South Africa.

WINDHOEK (Reuters ... apartheid and German colonial rule, Nujoma's SWAPO party oversaw a national reconciliation programme under the motto "One Namibia, One Nation". In his speeches, Nujoma ...