Amid a critical UN meeting on women and with aid cuts causing turmoil, we must remember that investing in women is a priority ...

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has been sworn in as Namibia’s first female president. She reaches the highest office in her land ...

The 72-year-old Nandi-Ndaitwah won an election in November to become one of just a handful of female leaders in Africa after the likes of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, Joyce Banda of Malawi ...

Nandi-Ndaitwah, joins a short list of female African leaders, including past presidents Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia) and Samia Suluhu Hassan (Tanzania, current president), breaking barriers for ...

at the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ministerial Complex in Monrovia. The ambitious $30 million initiative, funded by the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA), aims to revolutionize ...

Her ruling SWAPO party also retained its parliamentary majority, although by a very thin margin, and extended its 34-year ...

Before delivering her remarks, she called on previous women African leaders in the audience, including Liberia’s Nobel Peace laureate and former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, to stand.

Ndaitwah, 72, was inaugurated as Namibia's first female and 5th president since its independence in 1990.The longtime loyalist of the Southwest Africa People Organization (SWAPO Party), a political ...