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Namibia's President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (C) lights a candle during the Genocide Remembrance Day at the Parliament Gardens in Windhoek on May 28, 2025. [AFP]
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah repeated calls Wednesday for Germany to pay reparations for its genocide against Namibian tribes as she led the first official commemoration of the atrocity more than 120 years ago.
Thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people were massacred by colonial-era German troops between 1904 and 1908 after they rebelled against their rule in what is regarded as the first genocide of the 20th century.
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