Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, and was known as the father of the nation, has died. He was 95.

Sam Nujoma was said to have ‘marshalled the Namibian people during the darkest hours of our liberation struggle’.

Sam Nujoma, a freedom fighter in Namibia who became the nation's first President and is also their father of the nation, has died at 95; know all about

Nujoma was remembered in his own nation as a charismatic father figure who guided his country to democracy and stability following Germany’s lengthy colonial control and a violent independence struggl

Sam Nujoma, the activist and guerrilla leader who became Namibia's first democratically elected president after it won its independence from apartheid South Africa, died aged 95 on Saturday, the Namibian Presidency said on Sunday.

Now, four decades after leading Namibia through a bitter guerrilla war against South Africa's racist apartheid government and on to independence, Nujoma has died aged 95. He died on Saturday after being in hospital for three weeks due to "ill health",

Nujoma had been hospitalised over the past three weeks, battling an illness from which he "could not recover", President Nangolo Mbumba said in a statement released Sunday.