Sam Nujoma, the guerilla commander who led Namibia's fight for independence from South Africa and became its first ...

Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has described Namibia's founding President Sam Nujoma as a towering figure in the ...

Revered as "father of the nation" and the icon of Namibia's liberation struggle, Sam Nujoma lived up to these expectations in ...

He was revered in his arid, sparsely populated homeland in southwest Africa as a charismatic father figure who steered it to democracy and stability after long colonial rule by Germany and a ...

Sam Nujoma, the first president of independent Namibia who led the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa in 1990, has died, Namibia's current leader announced Sunday. He was 95.

In exile, he helped establish the South West African People’s Organization and was named its president in 1960. SWAPO has been Namibia's ruling party since 1990. When South Africa refused to ...

OSHAKATI, Namibia — Sam Nujoma, the fiery, white-bearded freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years ...