Latest news Windhoek, Namibia - President H. Geingob day of mourning. F-W. Steinmeier in Windhoek

Latest news from Windhoek, day of mourning, city center. Namibia bids farewell to its late President, Dr. Hage Geingob. #Namibia #Windhoek #LatestNews Namibia will observe an extraordinary public holiday on Monday, 26 February. This was announced by the Namibian Ministry of Information at the weekend. According to the announcement, the state funeral for the late President Hage Geingob will take place on Sunday, 25 February. Sunday has been declared a unique public holiday so that Namibians can bid a fitting farewell to their long-serving head of state and government. Public holidays that fall on a Sunday also apply to the following Monday. Namibia holiday makers must therefore be prepared for many businesses to remain closed on Monday, 26 February. These include photo, clothing and camping shops as well as arts and crafts shops and centres. Supermarkets, on the other hand, are expected to be open. Hage Geingob was the third president of Namibia. Founding president Sam Nujoma ruled the land of endless horizons from independence in 1990 until the end of his (exceptionally granted) third term in 2005. He was followed by Hifikepunje Pohamba, who served two terms. Both are still alive. Geingob took up the post of Head of State and Government in 2015 and would have left office next year. In November, Namibians will elect a new president and a new parliament. Hage Geingob died on Sunday, 4 February, after a short battle with cancer at the age of 82. Born in Otjiwarongo in 1941, he first went to school in Otavi and then in Windhoek. He trained as a teacher and taught at a school in Tsumeb in the north of the country. He went into exile in 1963 in protest against the so-called Bantu education system in what was then South West Africa under the South African mandate. After studying in the USA, Geingob was appointed by the liberation movement SWAPO as its representative at the United Nations and in the Americas. From 1975, he returned to his teaching profession, only at a higher level and in a managerial capacity. As Director of the UN Institute for Namibia, he and his team were responsible for training Namibians to become civil servants. He also developed a concept for the future form of government of an independent Namibia. The year before independence, on 18 June 1989, the 47-year-old Geingob returned to Namibia. He led SWAPO’s campaign for the democratic election to the Constitutional Assembly. After SWAPO’s overwhelming election victory, he played a leading role in shaping Namibia’s constitution as Chairman of the Constitutional Committee. As Namibia’s first Prime Minister, he was in office for twelve years. After a government reshuffle, he went to Washington, where he led the Global Coalition for Africa organisation. However, he returned shortly afterwards, was elected to parliament and became leader of the SWAPO parliamentary group in 2007. His party also elected him Vice President. In this position, he became SWAPO’s presidential candidate at the end of President Pohamba’s second term of office. In the 2014 elections, the citizens of Namibia elected him to the highest office of the state with an overwhelming majority. On the day of his death, the previous Vice President Nangolo Mbumba took over - but only temporarily. Last year, SWAPO had already nominated Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as its presidential candidate for the elections in November. Funeral services will be held on Saturday 24 February at the Independence Stadium on the southern edge of Windhoek and the burial will take place on Sunday. COOPERATION: 1. Send your video via WhatsApp/Telegram/e-mail/WeTransfer to namhren@ 2. Watch it in our compilation 3. Get links and views to your channel YouTube channel Exploring Namibia TV publishes four video a week: on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Themes range from travelling in Africa to exploring Europe and Russia. No annoying endless begging “hit/smash that bell“ and “don’t forget to sub“ here. © Exploring Namibia TV Facebook: NAMIBIA: WINDHOEK: EQUIPMENT | ОБОРУДОВАНИЕ: AERIAL: DJI PHANTOM 3 PRO | DJI MAVIC PRO PHONES: IPHONE XR/12 PRO | XIAOMI REDMI NOTE VIDEO CAMERAS: SONY HDR-CX360E | PANASONIC HC-X1 ✩F A C E B O O K | ФБ ► ✩INSTAGRAM | ИНСТА ► ✩B L O G | БЛОГ ► ✩V K EN TV | ГРУППА ВК ► ✩TELEGRAM | ТЕЛЕГРАМ ► ✩PURCHASE VIDEO P5 | ПОРТФОЛИО P5 ► ✩W E B S I T E | САЙТ ► ✩C O N T A C T | КОНТАКТЫ ►info@ ✩W H A T S U P T E X T | ВОТСАП ТЕКСТ: 264 816 654893