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Namibia

SWAPO aims to avoid a Botswana-style upset

With incumbents out of favour in the region, the outcome of the elections is on a knife-edge

Vice-President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (known as NNN) was swimming against the regional tide as she campaigned to become Namibia’s first female head of state in the parliamentary and presidential elections on 27 November. As the candidate of the ruling SWAPO Party, she has to fight the pattern in which incumbents, especially the liberation or independence parties in Africa, have been losing voter support.

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