Namibian president dies after battling cancer
President Hage G. Geingob of the Republic of Namibia has died days after his media team announced his return from the United States, where he had gone for cancer treatment.
Mr Geingob, who was elected president in 2015, died at 82 years at Lady Pohamba Hospital in Windhoek a few minutes after midnight on Sunday.
His wife, Monica, and children stayed beside Mr Geingob as he took his last breath, a statement attributed to Vice President Nangola Mbumba, currently acting President, said on X early Sunday
The deceased president was Namibia’s first prime minister in 1990 and he served in that capacity for 12 years until the nation gained independence in 2002.
“The Namibian nation has lost a distinguished servant of the people, a liberation struggle icon, the chief architect of our constitution,” the new acting president said in the statement eulogising Mr Geingob.
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