Southern Africa’s desert nation of Namibia swore in its first woman president Friday after Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah won elections that extended the ruling party’s 35-year grip on power.

Windhoek (AFP) – Southern Africa's desert nation of Namibia swore in its first woman president Friday after Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah won elections last year that extended the ruling party's 35 ...

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Namibia's first female president, has been sworn in. She has vowed to diversify the economy and fight unemployment. The 72-year-old Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, nicknamed NNN ...

STORY: Namibia's newly elected President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah pledged to tackle high unemployment rates as she took office on Friday. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Namibia's first ...

Thousands of Namibians gathered on the outskirts of the capital Windhoek on Saturday to bid farewell to the country’s founding president, Sam Nujoma, who died last month in a private hospital at ...

Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, became Namibia's first female president after her SWAPO party, which has governed the nation of around 3 million people for more than three decades, secured victory in both the ...

Namibia's newly elected President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah pledged on Friday, 21 March 2025 to boost investments in the agricultural sector and diversify the resource-focused economy in an attempt to ...

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah will become one of Africa’s few women leaders when she is inaugurated as president of Namibia on Friday. Here are five things to know about the next leader of this stable ...

PRESIDENT Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on Saturday reduced Namibia's Cabinet to 14 ministries. PRESIDENT Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on Saturday reduced Namibia's Cabinet from 21 to 14 ministries.

The 72-year-old Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, nicknamed NNN, was sworn in on Friday as the first woman president of the southern African nation of Namibia. Her SWAPO party, which has ruled the country of ...

Namibia's new president was sworn in on Friday to lead a country facing high rates of unemployment, inequality and poverty. And she will be dealing with it with the additional burden of being only ...