Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Herero ethnic group in traditional dress take part in the commemoration of the genocide by German colonial powers.

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is officially recognizing the colonial-era massacre of tens of thousands of people in Namibia as genocide and has agreed to provide funding to help the communities affected.

WINDHOEK, Namibia — Namibia marked the mass killings of Indigenous people in the early 20th century by former colonial ruler Germany with its first genocide remembrance day on Wednesday. The day was ...

Namibia's President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (C) lights a candle during the Genocide Remembrance Day at the Parliament Gardens in Windhoek on May 28, 2025. [AFP] President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah ...

WINDHOEK (Reuters) -Namibia honoured the victims of mass killings during German colonial rule with an inaugural memorial day on Wednesday, as politicians and affected communities voiced fresh calls ...

Dubbed "Germany's forgotten genocide", and described by historians as the first genocide of the 20th Century, the systematic murder of more than 70,000 Africans is being marked with a national day of ...

BERLIN – Germany is formally recognizing that its killing of tens of thousands of people belonging to two ethnic groups more than a century ago in present-day Namibia was a genocide. German Foreign ...

Namibia's President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah (2nd R) lights a candle in remembrance of the genocide by German colonial powers. For the first time, Namibia holds a national day of remembrance for the ...