Namibia elected its first female president ... The SWAPO never achieved military victory in an independence war that lasted more than 20 years, but Mr Nujoma won wide political support during ...

Now, four decades after leading Namibia through a bitter guerrilla war against South Africa's racist apartheid government and on to independence, Nujoma has died aged 95. He died on Saturday after ...

Namibia's founding father Sam Nujoma was ... The introduction of sweeping apartheid legislation led to a guerrilla war of independence breaking out in 1966.