Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Namibia's President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and Vice President Lucia Witboo light a ceremonial candle as the country holds its ...

Paramount Chief Adv. Vekuii Rukoro, high-ranked chiefs and other members of the Herero and Nama communities gather around a monument in honor of the Ovaherero and Nama people that were victims of the ...

Namibia's President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (C) lights a candle during the Genocide Remembrance Day at the Parliament Gardens in Windhoek on May 28, 2025. [AFP] President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah ...

WINDHOEK (Reuters) -Namibia honoured the victims of mass killings during German colonial rule with an inaugural memorial day on Wednesday, as politicians and affected communities voiced fresh calls ...

Namibia has issued fresh calls for reparations from Germany as Namibia marked its first national Genocide Remembrance Day Wednesday. Between 1904 and 1908, German colonial invaders killed up to ...

Descendants of the victims of the 1904-1908 Nama and Ovaherero genocide have criticised the government's decision to regionalise the Genocide Remembrance Day commemorations.They say the move risks ...

Namibia held a national day of commemoration on Wednesday for the victims of what is often referred to as "Germany's forgotten genocide." The programme included a candlelight vigil and a speech by ...

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German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) said on Friday that he was "pleased and grateful" that it had been possible to reach an "agreement with Namibia on how to deal jointly with the darkest chapter ...

International relations minister Selma Ashipala-Musavyi has confirmed that Namibia will press Germany for a formal apology for the colonial-era genocide against the Ovaherero and Nama people, ...

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah repeated calls Wednesday for Germany to pay reparations for its genocide against Namibian tribes as she led the first official commemoration of the atrocity more than ...