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 ...

The leadership of the South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo), like the ANC, was forced to spend years in exile, largely in the Zambian capital Lusaka. As with any exile organisation ...

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

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 ...

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

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).

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 ...