WINDHOEK (Reuters) -Namibia honoured the victims of mass killings during German colonial rule with an inaugural memorial day on Wednesday, as politicians and affected communities voiced fresh calls ...

Between 1904 and 1908, German colonial invaders killed up to 100,000 Indigenous people, most from the OvaHerero and Nama communities. This is OvaHerero leader Hoze Riruako.

FILE - Skulls of people from the Ovaherero and Nama tribes, which were taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for racial experiments, are returned to Namibian tribal leaders ...

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.

Hoze Riruako, an OvaHerero chief, said the colonial-era atrocities were a prelude to the Holocaust but "people are not aware of what has happened here to the same level".

The Ovaherero people demand the immediate and orderly repatriation of all stolen historical artifacts and human remains to their rightful descendants. The repatriation process must include ...

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 OvaHerero indigenous people of Kaokoland (now known as Kunene Region and Cunene Province) in Namibia and Angola are semi-nomadic pastoralists who rely on the land and natural environment to ...

Chairperson of the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation (OGF), Nandiuasora Mazeingo, meanwhile expressed skepticism about Germany’s acknowledgment of the genocide. "The statement by the Vice-President of ...