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Namibia elects 72-year-old woman

The Associated Press on MSN · 13h

Namibia will have its first female leader after VP wins presidential election for the ruling party

Namibia has elected its first female leader, with Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah declared the winner Tuesday of last week’s presidential election as the long-ruling party remains in power

The New York Times · 22h

Namibia Elects First Woman as President as Ruling Party Keeps Power

Across southern Africa, political parties that have led their countries since the end of colonialism have ceded power to the opposition in recent months. Namibia bucked the trend.

Legit on MSN · 8h

Namibia elects 72-year-old woman as first woman president

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) has been elected as the first female president of Namibia.

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Namibia elections see declining support for ruling SWAPO

SWAPO’s decline and that of other anti-colonial national movements have exposed the organic incapacity of Africa’s bourgeois ...

The Associated Press on MSN6d

Namibia votes and could have its first female leader. But election upsets have shaken the region

A woman who joined Namibia’s independence movement in the 1970s is a strong contender to become its first female leader as ...

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Will Namibia’s Liberation Party Be the Next to Fall in Africa?

Voters head to the polls on Wednesday in the latest test for one of southern Africa’s liberation parties, which have been ...

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