Sam Nujoma, Namibia's first democratically elected president and "founding father," has died aged 95. President Nangolo Mbumba announced the death of "our revered freedom fighter and revolutionary leader" via national radio and on Facebook on Sunday.

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.

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

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

The first president of independent Namibia, Sam Nujoma, has died at the age of 95 in the capital Windhoek, the country's current leader has announced. Nujoma led the long fight for independence from South Africa in 1990 after helping found Namibia's liberation movement known as the South West Peoples' Organisation (Swapo) in the 1960s.

Namibia's founding father Sam Nujoma, who led his country's fight for independence from South Africa, died Saturday aged 95, the presidency announced. "Our Founding Father lived a long and consequential life during which he exceptionally served the people of his beloved country,

Like many African leaders of his era, he was shaped by the struggle for resistance against colonial oppression. This was no romantic picnic.