On Wednesday, Namibia commemorates for the first time the mass killings of Herero and Nama people, committed by Germany, at the beginning of the 20th century. The genocide, termed by historians as ...

On May 28, 2021, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas announced that Germany will recognize the atrocities against the Herero and Nama people as genocide and work towards genuine reconciliation in ...

The Herero and Nama genocide is one such example. It took place between 1904 and 1908 in German-occupied South West Africa (currently the territory of Namibia). A foreign colony in Africa, it was ...

But many Herero and Nama have called for direct reparations, of the sort paid to Holocaust survivors after World War II. They say the descendants of victims, not the nation of Namibia, should lead ...

More than a century ago, Germany carried out a systematic massacre. From 1904 to 1908, in what is now Namibia, the German colonial government killed about 80,000 Herero and Nama people.

Germany has for the first time recognized the colonial-era atrocities against the Herero and Nama people in modern-day Namibia as genocide and agreed to pay €1.1 billion in aid. Between 1904 and 1908, ...

Mbakumua Hengari grew up in the 1970s on a farm in southern Africa, in what is today the nation of Namibia. The arid soil around his family's homestead was sandy and grassy, a poor fit for staple ...

Twice the targets of systematic racism — an "extermination order" by German colonizers, then brutal segregation by South Africa — they're still fighting to regain what they lost.