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

Between 1904 and 1908, German colonizers killed tens of thousands of Ovaherero and Nama people in Namibia. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas officially described the massacre as genocide and ...

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

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

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

Swakopmund — The wounds of the Ovaherero people that still need to be healed remains the unfinished business between them and all the successive governments of Germany since the 1904-8 war ...

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.

The Council of Chiefs, a body representing the Ovaherero and Nama people, also called for the renegotiation of the agreement with a focus on increasing the financial amount offered by Germany.

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 ...

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 ...

Between 1904 and 1908, Germany's colonial forces reacted to a rebellion by Ovaherero and Nama people in Namibia with brutal violence and prison camps. The trauma and political repercussion remain ...