Namibia has marked the mass killings of Indigenous people by former colonial ruler Germany in the early 20th century with its ...

Namibia honoured the victims of mass killings during German colonial rule with an inaugural memorial day on Wednesday, as ...

Colonial authorities deemed the land suitable for stock farming, and very soon German settlers encountered Nama people — and the Ovaherero. At first, relations between German and Herero people ...

Namibia has honoured the victims of the German genocide in their country, as politicians and affected communities voice fresh ...

Namibia marked its first official Genocide Remembrance Day on 28 May, a milestone date set aside to honour the memory of the ...

Dubbed "Germany's forgotten genocide", and described by historians as the first genocide of the 20th Century, the systematic ...

The day is meant to commemorate all those Nama and Ovaherero people killed during the 1904–1908 genocide engineered by colonial Germany. The announcement comes some three decades after Namibia first ...

The government of Namibia has set aside five commercial farms for the relocation of almost 100 ethnic Ovaherero people. Vitalio Angula reports from Windhoek, Namibia.

German soldiers killed some 65,000 OvaHerero and 10,000 Nama people in 1904-1908 in what historians and the United Nations have long called the first genocide of the 20th century. In 2021 Germany ...