Symbolic candles were lit at Wednesday’s remembrance ceremony, which was also attended by leaders and descendants of the ...

NAMIBIA has held its first ever Remembrance Day for a horrific colonial genocide committed Germany in the 1900s. Between 1904 ...

Namibia, May 28, held its first-ever national commemoration of the genocide carried out by German colonial forces against the ...

Namibia on Wednesday held its first national commemoration for the victims of mass killings by colonial-era German troops, in what is widely recognised as the first genocide of the 20th century.

The inaugural memorial day honoured victims of mass killings during German colonial rule amid renewed calls for reparations ...

Symbolic candles were lit at Wednesday's remembrance ceremony, which was also attended by leaders and descendants of the Herero and Nama people. Namibia chose May 28 as the day to mark the ...

which was also attended by leaders and descendants of the Herero and Nama people. Namibia chose May 28 as the day to mark the genocide because it was the date Germany finally gave the order to ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — 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.