Five Swapo leaders are said to be contending to fill the shoes of Oshana coordinator Werner Iita, who will be joining the parliament next month.

A woman who joined Namibia's independence movement in the 1970s is a strong contender to become its first female leader as the country votes in a presidential election.

If SWAPO remains in power, it is above all because it faces no real opposition to its left. The pro-capitalist party led by Itula, once SWAPO’s youth leader, is no alternative.

Eleven prominent leaders, including the SYL [SWAPO Youth League] group and five of the SWAPO executive who had been sympathetic to them (among them Andreas Shipanga and Solomon Mifima), were ...

Swapo member Reinhold Shipwiikineni has endorsed Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) presidential candidate Panduleni Itula.

Itula, a former dentist and lawyer, took 29% of the votes in the last elections in 2019, losing to Swapo leader Geingob, who got 56%.

WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia's ruling SWAPO party elected Hage Geingob as its president at the weekend, the party said on Monday. Geingob, president of Namibia since 2015 but acting president of ...

The Fishrot scandal epitomised that very rot which the voters had come to identify with the leadership of SWAPO-a party more interested in enriching its elites than serving the people.

Namibia’s ruling party Swapo faces its toughest election yet, as shifting support, a changing electorate, and emerging opposition signal a turning point for the nation’s political landscape.

Veteran South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo) leader Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, 72, secured 57.31% of the votes in the 27 November presidential race, making her Namibia ‘s first female leader, ...

The Fishrot scandal epitomised that very rot which the voters had come to identify with the leadership of SWAPO-a party more interested in enriching its elites than serving the people.

Namibia's ruling SWAPO party elected Hage Geingob as its president at the weekend, the party said on Monday.