Eventually, the Herero and Nama were blocked inside the waterless Namibia desert, and condemned to death or starvation. Following this military victory—if the slaughter of civilians can be ...

The German president's visit to Namibia, primarily meant to honor the late President Hage Geingob, has heightened ...

There can be no defense for genocide. In March, I spent a week in Namibia pushing for justice for the 1904-08 genocide of the Herero and the Nama peoples by Germany. Although that holocaust was ...

In the same year, Namibia's Nama people also staged an uprising. German authorities under General Lothar von Trotha unleashed a brutal retaliation, fuelled by racial ideology and including mass ...

Ovaherero and Nama descendants have made it clear that they were inadequately represented in the negotiations. When these got underway in 2015 the Namibian government created chiefs’ forums to ...

There can be no defense for genocide. In March, I spent a week in Namibia pushing for justice for the 1904-08 genocide of the Herero and the Nama peoples by Germany. Although that holocaust was ...