Sam Nujoma, a former guerrilla leader who became the first president of Namibia after decades of battling South African control of the sparsely populated but mineral-rich expanse in one of the ...

Sam Nujoma, who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, has died at age 95. The now-late Nujoma was known as the father of ...

President William Ruto has paid tribute to Namibia’s founding President Sam Nujoma ... announced that Nujoma died on Saturday in the capital Windhoek at the age of 95. He had been hospitalised ...