Namibia was already scheduled to hold presidential and legislative elections this year with Geingob advertisement Last year, his political party, the South West African People's Organization (SWAPO), announced the nomination of Deputy Prime Minister Nitumbo Nandy-Ndayetwah as its presidential candidate. In a post on XNandi Ndayitwah, formerly of Twitter, described Geingob as a “true democratic and transformational leader who has touched the lives of many”.
Geingob, who has served as president since 2015, has played a central role in Namibia's political scene since it became the last country on the continent to decolonize in 1990, after nearly a quarter-century of armed conflict with apartheid South Africa.
In a statement on SundaySouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa described Geingob as “a veteran who contributed to the liberation of Namibia from colonialism and apartheid.” It was also very influential in the solidarity that the people of Namibia gave to the people of South Africa so that we can be free today.
Between 1990 and 2002, Geingob served as the country's first Prime Minister after chairing the committee that drafted Namibia's first constitution.
The Namibian people “have given us a mandate to draft and adopt a constitution in the spirit of compromise, in the spirit of give and take, that will free our country and our people,” he told the country's Constitutional Convention in 1989. To the nation.”
In 2017, Geingob, who was educated in the United States, attended a United Nations General Assembly event in New York City during which President Donald Trump twice referred to “Nambia.” There was no public reaction from Geingob to the error, which was corrected in a White House transcript of Trump's comments.
Last month, Geingob denounced Germany for defending Israel from accusations of genocide in Gaza, referring to the genocide committed by the former German colonizer against the population of Namibia, which resulted in the deaths of at least 75,000 people.
Geingob said in a speech: “On Namibian soil, Germany committed the first genocide of the twentieth century in the period from 1904 to 1908, in which tens of thousands of innocent Namibians were killed in extremely inhuman and brutal conditions.” statement.
With an area larger than the state of Texas and a population of less than 2.8 million, Namibia is one of the least densely populated countries in the world. “We don't have to fight over land, because there is enough land,” Geingob said in 1993.
According to the CIA's World Factbook, the country is rich in natural resources but its per capita GDP has declined in recent years. The World Bank said that Namibia is classified as one of the most unequal countries in the world, and a United Nations report last year found that about 40 percent of the population lives in poverty.
Namibia was colonized by Germany and later administered by a white minority government controlled by South Africa. SWAPO, Geingob's party that has ruled the country since its independence, launched a guerrilla war in 1966 that culminated in a US-brokered peace plan and elections in 1989.
