Nangolo Mbumba is the interim president of the southern African nation of Namibia.
He was put in Sunday, following the loss of life of President Hage Geingob earlier within the day at a hospital in Winhoek.
Geingob introduced in January that he had most cancers.
Mbumba stated Sunday that he doesn’t plan to run for president in elections later this yr.
Meaning newly put in vice chairman Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah may search the presidential workplace. If she received, she can be first feminine president in southern Africa.
Nonetheless, she might face some challengers from inside SWAPO, her political social gathering.
The South West Africa Folks’s Group or SWAPO has been in energy in Namibia because it gained independence in 1990.
President Geingob not too long ago upbraided Germany for supporting Israel towards genocide fees on the Worldwide Court docket of Justice.
Geingob stated Germany dedicated genocide in Namibia within the 1800s, killing tens of 1000’s of Africans.
Some info for this report got here from Reuters.