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Namibian President Hage Geingob was laid to rest in the country's Heroes' Acre cemetery on Sunday following a state funeral attended by African leaders, the German president and Princess Anne, the ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Namibia's President Hage Geingob, 82, died in hospital early on Sunday, the presidency said, weeks after he was diagnosed with cancer. Geingob had been in charge of the ...
Namibia's 82-year-old president Hage Geingob died on Sunday while receiving medical treatment for cancer at a hospital in the capital Windhoek.. The Namibian presidency in a social media post said ...
In March 2011 SWAPO declared that whoever was the party's vice-president following the forthcoming party elections would also be the party's candidate in 2014 for president. Some high-level party members, particularly Kazenambo Kazenambo , advocated that SWAPO choose a non-Ovambo candidate, as the first two Presidents, Sam Nujoma and Pohamba ...
Hage Gottfried Geingob (3 August 1941 – 4 February 2024) was a Namibian politician who served as the third president of Namibia from 2015 until his death in February 2024. Geingob was the first prime minister of Namibia from 1990 to 2002, and served again from 2012 to 2015. [1] Between 2008 and 2012 Geingob served as Minister of Trade and ...
President of Namibia Hage Geingob dies at the age of 82. [1] Vice-President Nangolo Mbumba is sworn in as the fourth President of Namibia. [2] 16 April: Eleven inmates escape from a prison in Katima Mulilo, Zambezi Region. [3] 21 June: The High Court of Namibia rules that two colonial-era laws criminalizing gay sex are unconstitutional. [4]
Namibian President Hage Geingob has died at the age of 82 at a hospital in the capital Windhoek, where he was receiving medical treatment, according to a statement from Acting President Nangolo ...
Following Geingob's death in February 2024, Nandi-Ndaitwah was appointed as vice president, succeeding Nangolo Mbumba, who became president. She is the first woman serving in that role. [15] [16] On 3 December 2024, she was officially declared the president-elect of the Republic of Namibia, making her the first woman to hold the position. [17]