{"id":75579,"date":"2025-02-09T14:44:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T14:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/sam-nujoma-first-president-of-namibia-dies-aged-95-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T14:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T14:44:21","slug":"sam-nujoma-first-president-of-namibia-dies-aged-95-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/sam-nujoma-first-president-of-namibia-dies-aged-95-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Nujoma, first president of Namibia, dies aged 95 | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first president of independent Namibia, Sam Nujoma, has died at the age of 95, the country&#8217;s current leader has <!--more--> announced.<\/p>\n<p>Nujoma led the long fight for independence from South Africa in 1990 after helping found Namibia&#8217;s liberation movement known as the South West Peoples&#8217; Organisation (Swapo) in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>After independence, Nujoma became president in 1990 and led the country until 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Nujoma had been hospitalised over the past three weeks with an illness from which he &#8220;could not recover&#8221;, Namibian President Nangolo Mbumba said.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Namibia #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first president of independent Namibia, Sam Nujoma, has died at the age of 95, the country&#8217;s current leader has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}