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 ...

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 ...

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.

Dr Nujoma became involved in anticolonial politics during the1950's and was the founding member and the first President of the Southwest Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) in 1960. AllAfrica ...