By Alan Cowell Sam Nujoma, the founding president of an independent ... Getty Images South Africa said that its forces struck a military command, control and training center for insurgents ...

Revered as "father of the nation" and the icon of Namibia's liberation struggle, Sam Nujoma lived up to these expectations in ...

Sam Nujoma, a former guerrilla leader who became the first president of Namibia after decades of battling South African control of the sparsely populated but mineral-rich expanse in one of the ...

Sam Nujoma, the first president of independent Namibia who led the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa in 1990, has died, Namibia's current leader announced Sunday. He was 95.

Henning Melber is a member of SWAPO since 1974. Sam Nujoma was an outstanding Namibian leader who personified more than anybody else the country’s liberation struggle history and independence.

While Sam was in the battle trench, I was in the political trench, with Nigeria, under my watch as the Military Head of State, supporting Nujoma’s valiant struggle for national liberation not as ...

OSHAKATI, Namibia (AP) — Sam Nujoma ... and two pistols,” Nujoma once said. “I got them from Algeria, plus some rounds of ammunition.” SWAPO never achieved military victory in an ...

Sam Nujoma, the fiery, white-bearded freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, and became known as the ...

Sam Nujoma was an outstanding Namibian leader who personified more than anybody else the country’s liberation struggle history and independence. His death at the age of 95 marks the end of an era.