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 ...

Namibia's President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and Vice President Lucia Witboo light a ceremonial candle as the country holds its first commemoration for victims of the Herero and Nama genocide German ...

How — and where — should victims collect reparations for a genocide? In New York, an effort to hold present-day Germany responsible for what is grimly called the first genocide of the 20th century hit ...

Two protesters hold a sign reading "Reparations to descendants instead of 'development aid' to Namibia" at a demonstration in Berlin on May 28. That day, the German foreign minister formally ...

NAIROBI, Kenya—A giant hydrogen-generation project in Africa is pitting German clean-energy executives against descendants of victims of Germany’s forgotten colonial genocide. A major German ...

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Lars Kraume took his period drama, about the massacre of the Herero and Nama tribes by German colonial powers, on tour in Namibia before its European release. "If this film can be a tool for ...

A delegation of Herero and Nama people from Namibia in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 27, 2018 (Photo by Kay Nietfeld for dpa via AP Images). Editor’s Note: This is the web version of our subscriber-only ...

“Measures of Men” tells the story of the systematic massacre of Herero and Nama people in what is now Namibia. Its maker hopes the film will bring a debate about Germany’s colonial guilt into the ...

Namibia is being urged to pause its plans to extend a port on Shark Island, a key site in its genocide and the likely location of human remains. When the southwest African nation was under German ...