Sam Nujoma, Namibia's founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, has been laid to rest in the country's Heroes Acre cemetery following a state funeral attended ...

Thousands of Namibians and dignitaries gathered yesterday to mourn the country’s independence leader, Sam Nujoma, as nearly a ...

Revered as the ‘Father of the Nation’ and a central figure in Namibia’s fight for independence, Sam Nujoma was widely ...

In February, the Namibian cabinet endorsed the incorporation of the SWAPO manifesto into government policies, with ...

Swapo member of parliament Agnes Kafula is pushing a motion that will see street vendors, who have in the past been playing cat-and-mouse games with the police, be given access to social ...

Vice President Kashim Shettima attended the funeral of Sam Nujoma, Namibia's first president and one of the country's ...

Nairobi Kenya — Deputy President Kithure Kindki is set to jet out to Windhoek for the burial of Namibia's founding ... movement known as the Southwest Africa People's Organisation (Swapo) in the 1960s ...

The Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) has said it does not recognise the results of the November elections, won by the ruling SWAPO party which has been in power since independence in 1990.

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia's Supreme Court ... The Southern African country's SWAPO party, which has governed the nation of around 3 million people for more than three decades, won both the ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP ... Nujoma returned to Namibia to lead the liberation movement SWAPO in the U.N.-supervised elections in November 1989 that subsequently elevated him to the country ...