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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Around 300 protesters stormed Namibia’s parliament on Tuesday, as the National Assembly was due to vote on a $1 billion compensation offer from Germany to atone for its 1904-1908 genocide against the ...

Encouraged by the visit of a German politician, Namibians have made fresh calls for the German government to admit that genocide was committed against the Herero and Nama tribes over a hundred years ...

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.

Lars Kraume took his period drama, about the massacre of the Herero and Nama tribes by German colonial powers, on tour in Namibia before its European release. "If this film can be a tool for ...