A member of Swapo since 1974, scholar and activist Henning Melber offers a frank assessment of the party’s moral shortcomings, internal divisions, and eagerness to trade on its liberation legacy.

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, ...

The ruling Swapo party has secured a big victory in the Local Authorities polls, winning over 52% of all seats nationwide - and marking an increase of nearly 40% since the 2020 polls. Namibia's ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Namibians are set to vote for a new president and parliament on Nov. 27, after Hage Geingob died and was replaced as president on a interim basis by his deputy, Nangolo Mbumba ...

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 ...

Minister of Works and Transport Veikko Nekundi has called on Namibians to fly the Swapo flag with pride. He said the ruling party remains the only political movement with the nations's best interest ...

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia's President-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah pledged "radical shifts" to fix the country's high levels of poverty and unemployment, speaking on Thursday in her first press ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia — Namibia has elected its first female leader, with Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah declared the winner Tuesday of last week’s presidential election as the long-ruling party ...

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 ...

CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Namibia's ruling SWAPO party cruised to victory in the 2014 presidential election with Prime Minister Hage Geingob taking 86.73 percent of all declared votes, the southern ...