WINDHOEK, May 25 (Xinhua) -- Namibia on Sunday commemorated Africa Day 2025, marking the 62nd anniversary of the African Union.

Namibia has been inhabited since prehistoric times by the San, Damara, and Nama. 14th Century AD - Bantu people begin to arrive during the Bantu expansion from central Africa. 18th Century ...

An estimated 1.4 million people — around half the ... for the elephants set to be killed. Namibia is one of several countries across southern Africa struggling with devastating drought driven ...

Civil society organisations and political parties say ignorance of the law and cultural context cannot defend what amounts to sexual abuse and exploitation of vulnerable and minority groups.

Mr. Nujoma and his South-West Africa People’s Organization, known as SWAPO, which was formed in 1960 after he fled Namibia in exile, played no direct part in the negotiations that led to the ...

In August, Namibia announced it had embarked ... countries what to do and valuing wildlife over people. The situation facing southern Africa is dire. Crops have failed, livestock has died and ...

Namibia is now the only African country with ... when she joined the South West Africa People’s Organization (Swapo), a liberation movement now the ruling party. Her career became marked with ...

By Amelia Nierenberg Reporting from London The Southern African nation of Namibia is planning to butcher hundreds of its most majestic animals to feed some of the 1.4 million people — nearly ...

Namibia’s President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah ... affairs before rising through the ranks of the ruling South West Africa People’s Organisation, or Swapo. She becomes the second woman to hold ...

Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, became Namibia's first female president after her SWAPO party, which has governed the nation of around 3 million people for ... indicate the southern African nation ranks ...