Votes are being counted in Namibia in what could be the most competitive election since independence from white-ruled South Africa 34 years ago. The poll was marred by logistical issues with voting ...

Namibia’s ruling party Swapo faces its toughest election yet, as shifting support, a changing electorate, and emerging opposition signal a turning point for the nation’s political landscape. Itula, ...

Namibia’s founding constitution was shaped amid sharp disagreement within Swapo itself, with senior party figures divided over whether the death penalty should be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Voters waited in long lines outside polling stations in Namibia's capital Windhoek on Wednesday (November 27) morning. It's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- Namibians lined up from late Tuesday to vote in presidential and parliamentary elections that are expected to be ...

Namibia's SWAPO, in power since 1990, may see a decline in Wednesday's elections but faces no imminent collapse. In Namibia, where polling opened in presidential and parliamentary elections on ...

Paul Trewhela, an anti-Stalinist historian of the national liberation movements in Southern Africa, reviews Marion Wallace's A History of Namibia: From the Beginning to 1990 A new history of Namibia ...

Swapo deputy secretary Uahekua Herunga has stepped down as the party's chief whip in the National Assembly, citing personal ...

THE founder of the new political party that was recently formed in Omusati region revealed that Nampo is a sister political party of Swapo. The Namibia People’s Organisation (Nampo) party was formed ...

South Africa`s offer to re-establish a national assembly to administer Namibia and help lead the territory to independence was rejected Friday by SWAPO, the South West Africa Peoples Organization, ...

Will Namibia be the next country in southern Africa to kick out a political party in power since independence? In a year that has proven detrimental for many ruling parties across the region, ...

The main unstated aim of the Former Liberation Movements of Southern Africa — an informal club of seven movements/parties that brought freedom to their countries — has always been to help each other ...