For me, it was an opportunity to see firsthand how colonial violence is remembered in Namibia. This was not my first time learning about Germany’s colonial history. In 2022, I spent two weeks in ...

Namibia's President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (2nd R) lights a candle in remembrance of the genocide by German colonial powers. For the first time, Namibia holds a national day of remembrance for the ...

A day after Germany defended Israel from charges of genocide in Gaza, Namibia’s president denounced Germany for hypocrisy, citing a genocide that the Germans committed in the African nation more than ...

Germany has apologized for its role in the first genocide of the 20th century, which took place in Namibia, a former colony then known as German South West Africa. Between 1904 and 1908, German ...

A Namibian namesake of the Nazi leader has just been reelected for a fifth consecutive term as a regional councillor. Adolf Hitler Uunona insists that he has nothing whatsoever in common, ...

Germany had promised an apology to Namibia for colonial-era genocide before general elections in September this year. But negotiations between both governments drag ...

Windhoek — The fact that President Hifikepunye Pohamba was the first Head of State to be received by the new German government last year, underlines the special relationship that exists between the ...

Namibia's Herero people have filed a lawsuit in the US against Germany over a genocide in the early 20th century. The case, which got underway on Tuesday, shows how Germany is still struggling with ...

The massacre of modern-day Namibia's indigenous Herero and Nama groups by German imperial troops more than a century ago is considered by some historians to be the first genocide of the 20th century.

Outgoing German Ambassador to Namibia Christian-Matthias Schlaga (CS) was this week's guest on NBC show One-on-One to chronicle his work in the country and the general relations between the two ...

Namibia marked its first Genocide Remembrance Day on Wednesday, recalling the victims of German colonial rule with a ceremony attended by thousands in the gardens of the parliament building in ...