WINDHOEK, Namibia — A woman who joined Namibia's underground independence movement in the 1970s is a strong contender to become its first female leader as the country voted Wednesday in a presidential ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even in South Africa, which has attracted more attention than other parts of the continent, few women photographers from the early and mid-1900s appear in the historical record. There are even fewer ...