Swapo might have kept the presidency, but it fell short in the National Assembly ballot — securing only 51 seats. This ...

The Southern Eye The clamour for democratic transformation in southern Africa is a sign that the region wants to get rid of a ...

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of Namibia's ruling SWAPO party has been elected president and will be the country's first female ...

Nicknamed NNN, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has made history by being elected as Namibia's first female president. The 72 year old won more than 57% of the vote, with her closest rival, Panduleni Itula, ...

SWAPO’s decline and that of other anti-colonial national movements have exposed the organic incapacity of Africa’s bourgeois ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibia elected its first female leader as Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah was declared the ...

Namibia's ruling SWAPO party was declared winner Tuesday of last week's disputed elections, ushering in the southern African country's first woman president after a disputed vote that the main ...

Namibia has elected Vice-President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as its first female president after a contested election.At ...

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female president, served two consecutive terms after winning the 2005 and 2011 elections. Sirleaf was also elected Chair of the Economic Community of West ...

Vice-President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah took just over 57 percent of ballots followed by the candidate for the main opposition ...

Oil and gas-rich Namibia is set to have its first female head of state after Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwa of the ruling SWAPO party ...