Namibia already has presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for this year, and Geingob said: announcement Last year, his party, the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), announced that it would endorse Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nnamdi N'Ditwa as its presidential candidate. In the post of XFormer Twitter user Nnamdi Ntowa described Geingob as “a true democrat and leader of change who touched so many lives.”
Mr Geingob, who has been president since 2015, has led Namibia since it became the last country on the African continent to be liberated from colonization in 1990 after nearly a quarter of a century of armed conflict with apartheid South Africa. It has played a central role on the political stage.
in a statement on sunday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa described Geingob as “a great veteran who liberated Namibia from colonialism and apartheid”. He also had a huge impact on the solidarity that the people of Namibia extended to the people of South Africa so that we can be free today. ”
From 1990 to 2002, Mr. Geingob chaired Namibia's first constitutional committee and later served as the country's first prime minister.
During the 1989 Constituent Assembly, Namibians said, “In a spirit of compromise, in a spirit of give and take, they have given us the mission to develop and adopt a Constitution that will stand up for our country and our people.'' Ta. To the nation. ”
In 2017, the U.S.-educated Geingob attended a United Nations General Assembly event in New York City, during which President Donald Trump mentioned “Nambia” twice. Geingob did not publicly respond to the mistake, but it was corrected in the White House record of President Trump's comments.
Geingob last month criticized Germany for defending Israel against accusations of genocide in Gaza, citing the genocide of Namibia's former German colony against the Namibian people, in which at least 75,000 people were killed.
“On Namibian soil, Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century between 1904 and 1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians died in the most inhumane and cruel conditions,” Geingob said in a statement. mentioned in. statement.
With a territory larger than Texas and a population of less than 2.8 million, Namibia is one of the least densely populated countries in the world. “There is no need to fight over land because there is enough land around,” Geingob said in 1993.
According to the CIA World Factbook, the country is rich in natural resources, but its GDP per capita has declined in recent years. Namibia ranks as one of the most unequal countries in the world, according to the World Bank, and a United Nations report last year found that about 40 percent of the population lives in poverty.
Namibia was colonized by Germany and then ruled by a white minority government dominated by South Africa. Geingob's party, SWAPO, which has ruled the country since independence, launched a guerrilla war in 1966 that culminated in a U.S.-brokered peace plan and elections in 1989.