Swapo deputy secretary Uahekua Herunga has stepped down as the party's chief whip in the National Assembly, citing personal reasons.Herunga confirmed this to The Namibian yesterday after National ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Voters waited in long lines outside polling stations in Namibia's capital Windhoek on Wednesday (November 27) morning. It's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Namibians lined up from late Tuesday to vote in presidential and parliamentary elections that are expected to be ...

Namibia’s ruling party Swapo faces its toughest election yet, as shifting support, a changing electorate, and emerging opposition signal a turning point for the nation’s political landscape. Itula, ...

Swapo deputy secretary Uahekua Herunga has stepped down as the party chief whip following alleged mounting pressure from a group of younger members of parliament (MPs).Herunga's resignation was ...

Paul Trewhela, an anti-Stalinist historian of the national liberation movements in Southern Africa, reviews Marion Wallace's A History of Namibia: From the Beginning to 1990 A new history of Namibia ...

Namibia's SWAPO, in power since 1990, may see a decline in Wednesday's elections but faces no imminent collapse. In Namibia, where polling opened in presidential and parliamentary elections on ...

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has been serving as vice-president since February Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, from the governing South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo), has been voted in as Namibia's ...

If things work out as Namibia’s long-time governing party hopes, the country will be electing its first female head of state this week. But a mood of disillusionment with liberation movements in ...

South Africa`s offer to re-establish a national assembly to administer Namibia and help lead the territory to independence was rejected Friday by SWAPO, the South West Africa Peoples Organization, ...

The South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo) – the former liberation movement that has governed the country since independence – used to win by huge margins. But, increasingly, Namibians are ...

The main unstated aim of the Former Liberation Movements of Southern Africa — an informal club of seven movements/parties that brought freedom to their countries — has always been to help each other ...