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

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 ...

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.

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

the political party launched a guerilla campaign while under his leadership to combat South Africa’s continued control over the country. SWAPO has since remained in power in Namibia. While ...

Namibian President Nangolo Mbumba said Nujoma died from an illness Saturday night after being hospitalized in the capital, Windhoek ... in 1960. SWAPO has been Namibia's ruling party since ...

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 ...

The first president of independent Namibia, Sam Nujoma, has died at the age of 95 in the capital Windhoek ... lead the party before stepping down in 2007 as president of the ruling Swapo party ...