Sam Nujoma, who fought against apartheid and for Namibian independence and was known officially as the country’s “founding ...
Mr. Nujoma and his South-West Africa People’s Organization ... shortly before Namibia’s independence vote.Credit...Trevor Samson/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images South Africa said ...
Sam Nujoma, the freedom fighter who became Namibia's founding president after leading the country to independence from ...
OSHAKATI, Namibia (AP) — Sam Nujoma, the fiery, white-bearded freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid ...
Like many African leaders of his era, he was shaped by the struggle for resistance against colonial oppression. This was no ...
Sam Nujoma, Namibia's founding president, has died in the country's capital, Windhoek, on Saturday at 95, the Namibian ...
WINDHOEK, Namibia — Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, and was known as the ...
He said Nujoma “marshalled the Namibian people ... leader of Namibia’s independence movement before returning for Parliamentary elections in late 1989, the first democratic vote in the country.
Sam Nujoma was said to have ‘marshalled the Namibian people during the darkest hours of our liberation struggle’.
Nujoma led the long fight for independence from South Africa in 1990 after helping found Namibia’s liberation movement, the South West Africa People ... leading Swapo to election victory ...
The founding president of the Republic of Namibia, Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma (Sam Nujoma), passed away eight hours ago ...