With former Foreign Minister Hidipo Hamutenya and his supporters demoted in a purge orchestrated by outgoing President Sam Nujoma many MPs elected in the 15-16 November polls will be drawn from the Nujoma-loyalists expected to call most of the shots after the elections (AC Vol 45 No 18)...
President Sam Nujoma sacked Hamutenya in May four days before the South West African People's Organisation picked Vice-President Hifekepunye Pohamba as its candidate (AC Vol 45 No 12)...
He has been visited by Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth of Mauritius and President Sam Nujoma of Namibia...
It was the result President Sam Nujoma wanted...
A strong campaign for SWAPO Vice-President Hifikepunye Pohamba is under way mainly because he is the incumbent President Sam Nujoma's candidate and Nujoma distrusts Hamutenya...
Ambitious Foreign Minister Hidipo Hamutenya looks set to be installed as successor to President Sam Nujoma by the ruling South West African People's Organisation at its 28-29 May extraordinary congress (AC Vol 44 No 23)...
The battle to succeed President Sam Nujoma is heating up after Hifikepunye Pohamba announced he would stand for president of the governing South West African People's Organisation...
Namibia's President Sam Nujoma is set to stand down in 2005...
African leaders regard EU or Commonwealth sanctions as an ugly precedent which one day might hit them but few of them (bar Namibia's Sam Nujoma) show much enthusiasm for Mugabe's brand of 'Afro-Catholic Stalinism' mainly because of the economic damage it has wrought in Southern Africa...
Namibia's delicate inter-ethnic balance carefully maintained since Independence in 1990 by President Sam Nujoma is the hot political topic...