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 ...

Germany has apologized for its role in the first genocide of the 20th century, which took place in Namibia, a former colony then known as German South West Africa. Between 1904 and 1908, German ...

The German government formally recognized colonial-era atrocities against the Herero and Nama people in modern-day Namibia for the first time, referring to the early 20th century massacres as ...

The colonial era during the German South West Africa period is narrated as a brief spell, without due consideration to how remarkably it shaped present day Namibia. Particularly, the period's legal, ...

Around 300 protesters stormed Namibia's parliament on Tuesday, as the National Assembly was due to vote on a $1bn (about R14bn) compensation offer from Germany to atone for its 1904-1908 genocide ...

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 ...

The Ovaherero Traditional Authority and the Nama Traditional Leaders Association (NTLA) have approached the new German government on the 1904 to 1908 genocide agreement that is currently on the table ...

A representative of the Herero shows photos of his ancestors – the family had fled the genocide under German colonial rule Photo: Gioia Forster THE HERERO and Nama people of Namibia are demanding a ...

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 ...