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<p dir="ltr">Namibia&#8217;s President Hage Geingob, 82, died early Sunday, the presidency said, weeks after he was diagnosed with cancer.</p><div class="02QymTGa" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p dir="ltr">Geingob had been in charge of the thinly populated and mostly arid southern African country since 2015, the year he announced he had survived prostate cancer.</p><div class="N4LoEACU" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p dir="ltr">Vice President Nangolo Mbumba takes the helm in Namibia &#8212; a mining hotspot with significant deposits of diamonds and the electric car battery ingredient lithium &#8212; until presidential and parliamentary elections at the end of the year.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A presidency post on social media platform X did not give a cause of death, but late last month the presidency said he had traveled to the United States for &#8220;a two-day novel treatment for cancerous cells,&#8221; after being diagnosed following a regular medical check-up.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Born in 1941, Geingob was a prominent politician since before Namibia achieved independence from white minority-ruled South Africa in 1990.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">He chaired the body that drafted Namibia&#8217;s constitution, then became its first prime minister at independence on March 21 of that year, a position he retained until 2002.<br />
2007, Geingob became vice president of the governing South West Africa People&#8217;s Organization (SWAPO), which he had joined as an agitator for independence when Namibia was still known as South West Africa.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">SWAPO has remained in power in Namibia unchallenged since independence. The former German colony is technically an upper middle-income country but one with huge disparities in wealth.</p>
<p dir="ltr">&#8220;There were no textbooks to prepare us for accomplishing the task of development and shared prosperity after independence,&#8221; he said in a speech to mark the day in 2018. &#8220;We needed to build a Namibia in which the chains of the injustices of the past would be broken.&#8221;</p>
<p dir="ltr">Geingob served as trade and industry minister before becoming prime minister again in 2012.</p>
<p dir="ltr">He won the 2014 election with 87% of the vote but only narrowly avoided a runoff with a little more than half the votes in a subsequent poll in November 2019.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That election followed a government bribery scandal, in which officials were alleged to have awarded horse mackerel quotas to Iceland&#8217;s biggest fishing firm, Samherji, in exchange for kickbacks, according to local media reports. The resultant outcry led to the resignation of two ministers.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The following year, Geingob lamented that Namibia&#8217;s wealth still remained concentrated in the hands of its white minority.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Distribution is an issue, but how do we do it?&#8221; Geingob said in a virtual session at an event organized by international organization Horasis.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">&#8220;We have a racial issue here, a historical racial divide. Now you say we must grab from the whites and give it to the Blacks, it&#8217;s not going to work,&#8221; he said.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">His comments came after the government rescinded as unworkable a policy that would have made it mandatory for white-owned businesses to sell a 25% stake to Black Namibians.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Geingob died at Lady Pohamba Hospital in Windhoek, where he was receiving treatment from his medical team, the presidency said.</p>
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