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.

Germany has apologized for its role in the first genocide of the 20th century, which took place in Namibia, a former colony then known as German South West Africa. Between 1904 and 1908, German ...

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Berlin — More than 100 years after the crimes were committed, Germany formally confessed on Friday to having committed genocide as the colonial power in what is now Namibia. After years of ...

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 ...

More than 100 years after the crimes committed by the German colonial power in what is now Namibia, Germany has formally recognized the atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama ethnic groups ...

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 ...

Between 1904 and 1907 German colonial rulers in Namibia attempted to exterminate a whole section of the native population, in another horrific chapter of history campaigners are calling on the country ...

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 ...

Germany apologized to Namibia for a colonial-era slaughter of up to 80,000 people when its troops put down a tribal uprising. It offered $1.3 billion to aid in reconstruction and development. Germany ...

Jan. 14 (UPI) --Namibian President Hage G. Geingob blasted Germany on Saturday for defending Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, pointing to the genocide Germany itself ...

The inaugural commemoration event for genocide victims under colonial German rule has been held. Namibia's president said more needed to be done to reach an agreement on reparations. Namibia held a ...