Swapo president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on Saturday urged party members to remain united and reject misinformation as the ruling party prepared to officially open its ...

Swapo Party President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has urged party leaders and members to remain guided by the values and principles that have sustained the movement for over six decades.She was speaking to ...

Two decades after Namibian independence, scholar, activist and longstanding Swapo member Henning Melber pulls no punches in his judgement of the party’s moral failures, power struggles, and ...

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 ...

Namibia, until recently led by an interim president in power since the death of former President Hage Geingob in February, was tipped as potentially facing turmoil and even unrest as its elections ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Namibia celebrates 26 August as Heroes’ Day. It recalls the first military encounter between the South African army and members of ...

Opposition leaders have blasted what they term "jobs for comrades" from those associated with certain political parties. They say the practice undermines fair and merit-based employment.Popular ...

Quotas designed to bring gender parity to parliaments have an overall positive impact on support for female political leadership – especially after women members of parliament take office. Furthermore ...

Namibians queue to vote in 2019. Gianluigi Guercia/AFP via Getty Images Itula, contesting as an “independent candidate” without party nomination, managed to snatch 30% of the votes from Geingob. Swapo ...

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 ...