Namibia's President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and Vice President Lucia Witboo light a ceremonial candle as the country holds its first commemoration for victims of the Herero and Nama genocide German ...

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 during a ...

Berlin — More than 100 years after the crimes were committed, Germany formally confessed on Friday to having committed genocide as the colonial power in what is now Namibia. After years of ...

(CNN) — More than 100 years after the crimes committed by the German colonial power in what is now Namibia, Germany has formally recognized the atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama ethnic ...

$580m per year, for 40 years. This is the amount for reparations that Vekuii Rukoro, the Herero community’s charismatic leader, claimed from Berlin for the genocide that the German empire had ...

BERLIN — Germany’s government acknowledged on Friday that it committed genocide during its colonial occupation of what is now Namibia and promised more than $1 billion in development projects in ...

German colonial settlers killed tens of thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people in 1904-1908 massacres -- labelled the first genocide of the 20th century by historians. [AFP] Germany for the ...

Lars Kraume took his period drama, about the massacre of the Herero and Nama tribes by German colonial powers, on tour in Namibia before its European release. "If this film can be a tool for ...

JOHANNESBURG—Germany said Friday that it would ask former colony Namibia for forgiveness for what it now recognizes was a genocide of the local Herero and Nama people committed by its troops between ...

Around 300 protesters stormed Namibia’s parliament on Tuesday, as the National Assembly was due to vote on a $1 billion compensation offer from Germany to atone for its 1904-1908 genocide against the ...

Germany apologized to Namibia for a colonial-era slaughter of up to 80,000 people when its troops put down a tribal uprising. It offered $1.3 billion to aid in reconstruction and development. Germany ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia — Namibia marked the mass killings of Indigenous people in the early 20th century by former colonial ruler Germany with its first genocide remembrance day on Wednesday. The day was ...