WINDHOEK, Namibia — Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah was sworn in as Namibia’s first female president on Friday, reaching the highest ...
When I arrived, he was there, mobilising us teenagers to return to the frontlines and fight for our country Namibia," he noted. Shekupe recounted how the war's intensity forced him to abandon his ...
"And war. I was raised during war. That can also make you wise in a hurry." Namibia's civil war started in 1966 and lasted 22 years. In 1990, when Namibia at last gained independence from ...
Namibia, then known as South West Africa, was under German occupation from 1884 until 1915, when Germany lost its colony in World War One. It then fell under the rule of white South Africa ...