Since her swearing into office in March 2025, Namibia has quietly rewritten the story of leadership. The country has made history as the first in the world where the three highest offices, the ...

Significant Rates of Violence and Sexual Harassment Against Women Parliamentarians in the Asia Pacific An Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) report published on Tuesday illustrates the serious problem ...

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah who took over last week on Friday became the country’s first female president. But the land of the ‘brave’ as Namibia is known had two other aces up its sleeve.

Angolan women and children displaced by drought into Namibia face serious human rights abuses arising from a lack of safe and ...

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah becomes the first woman to rule the mineral-rich southern African country that has been governed by the SWAPO party since independence in 1990 ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia, Feb 11 2025 (IPS) - Communities in the Kavango West region of northern Namibia have firsthand experience of the severe impacts of climate change. The dry, cracked soil and emaciated ...

10 December is worldwide commemorated as Human Rights Day. It marks the anniversary of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted on that day in 1948. Many countries and organisations ...

Southern Africa's desert nation of Namibia swore in its first woman president Friday after Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah won elections last year that extended the ruling party's 35-year grip on power.