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Namibia's President Hage Geingob, dies at 82

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Namibia's President Hage Geingob at the 75th anniversary celebrations of UNESCO at its headquarters in Paris on November 12, 2021. [AP photo]

Namibia's President Hage Geingob, 82, died early Sunday, the presidency said, weeks after he was diagnosed with cancer.

Geingob had been in charge of the thinly populated and mostly arid southern African country since 2015, the year he announced he had survived prostate cancer.

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