The African leader announced last month that he had begun treatment for cancer.

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is the current vice president and the ruling Swapo party’s candidate for the top job. She is already in the lead after special voting among citizens overseas and the armed forces.

Namibia is voting in a historical presidential election in which 72-year-old independence movement veteran and current vice president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, is a front-runner to become the country's first female president. Nandi...

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is the current vice president and the ruling Swapo party’s candidate for the top job. She is already in the lead after special voting among citizens overseas and the armed forces.

Namibian voters waited in long queues to cast their votes in one of the nation’s most competitive elections.

Namibia’s long-time governing party hopes to elect its first female head of state.



72-year-old vice-president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, is the flag-bearer for Swapo, which has led the country since independence from apartheid...

Namibia holds elections on Wednesday that have been billed as the most hotly contested in the southern African nation since it gained independence in 1990. The South West Africa People's Organisation has dominated Namibian politics for...

VOICED : Namibias children schooled behind the Iron Curtain

Interview in Pretoria with General Dutton about South African military operation in Angola

1. ms Dutton speaking SOUNDBITE (English): considerable upsurge in Swapo, it was followed by incidents of hijackings, placing bombs, all...

VOICED: Women should be the winners of Namibia’s general election

Background to Story: South Africa claims it moved into southern Angola to neutralise

Namibian SWAPO guerrillas based there. But Black African nations say South Afr
ica's
trying to de-stabilise the Angolan...

Namibian leaders arriving for meeting and interview with the Namibian leader Doctor Afruca

1. wide top shot conference building, Win
dhoek
2. ms officials off coach and int
o building
3. interior, reporter and SOUNDBITE:...

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In South West Africa (Namibia) African poli
tical
opposition to South Africa's presence cont
inues with
church and lay leaders demanding
a...

Background to Story: 1981 was expected to see a breakthrough in international

efforts to bring independence to Namibia, also knows as South-West Africa, the
vast
territory administered by South Africa for...

Report on African frontline meeting on Namibian independence. Includes a statement by SWAPO (South West Africa People's Organization) President Sam Nujoma.

1. mcu spokesman for the conference: SOUNDBITE: the ministers supported...

CLEAN : Namibia prepares for Africa's first e vote

CLEAN : Namibias ruling party wins election landslide

CLEAN : Women should be the winners of Namibia’s general election

CLEAN : Stock shots of Windhoek and Namibia

President Hage Geingob called on Namibians to vote for a party that has been tried and tested the ruling SWAPO party (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

Namibian President Hage Geingob casts his vote in a general election as he is vying for re election after his first term was marred by a recession that stirred anger against SWAPO which continues to bask in the legacy of the liberation...

President Hage Geingob arrives at his SWAPO party’s final rally in Namibia’s capital a few days before the election (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)