He was revered in his arid, sparsely populated homeland in southwest Africa as a charismatic father figure who steered it to democracy and stability after long colonial rule by Germany and a ...

Mr. Nujoma and his forces — the South-West Africa People’s Organization, or SWAPO — were caught in the middle as they fought to oust White-ruled South Africa, which took hold over the former ...

Oil-producing African countries have increased their crude production quota, now accounting for 35 per cent of newly ...

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

When the southwest African nation was under German colonial rule, nearly 100,000 indigenous people were killed or died during what is widely recognised as one of the 20th century's first genocides.

But his legacy will live on. Together with Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, he was central in the foundation of the national liberation movement, South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo).

In exile, he helped establish the South West African People’s Organization and was named its president in 1960. SWAPO has been Namibia’s ruling party since 1990. When South Africa refused to ...

He led the long fight for freedom from South Africa, which was then under white-minority rule, and helped found the liberation movement known as the South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo ...

He was revered in his arid, sparsely populated homeland in southwest Africa as a charismatic father figure who steered it to democracy and stability after long colonial rule by Germany and a ...