WINDHOEK: Namibia‘s Nangolo Mbumba, who took over as interim president of the southern African nation on Sunday after Hage Geingob died in workplace, stated he had no plans to run in elections due on the finish of the yr.
Meaning Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, who replaces Mbumba as vp and was nominated by the governing South West Africa Individuals’s Organisation (SWAPO) simply over a yr in the past to be its candidate, will stay on the poll.
If she wins, she would be the southern African nation’s first feminine president.
“I’m not going to be round for the elections so do not panic,” Mbumba stated in a transfer that’s uncommon amongst African leaders who’ve usually sought to retain energy as soon as it’s of their palms.
“My intention was to be a faculty principal, which I achieved and now I’ve to thank the Namibian folks for the honour they’ve bestowed on me to be their president, for a brief interval,” Mbumba stated at his swearing-in ceremony.
SWAPO’s structure forbids making adjustments as soon as the candidate has been picked two years earlier than the ballot is due.
The occasion has dominated Namibia – a mining hotspot with plentiful diamonds, uranium and in addition lithium wanted for electrical automotive batteries – since independence from South Africa in 1990.
Geingob, in energy since 2015, died aged 82 within the early hours of Sunday after a short battle with most cancers.
“It’s poignant and reassuring to notice that right this moment, even on this time of heavy loss, our nation stays calm and steady,” Mbumba stated. “That is owing to the visionary management … of president Geingob who was the chief architect of the Namibian structure.”
Geingob leaves behind a middle-income nation preventing to push financial development above 3% following a pandemic-era slowdown and reverse racial inequalities left over from colonialism and annexation by South Africa’s former white minority authorities.
He led Namibia’s efforts to recast itself as a pacesetter of the worldwide inexperienced economic system and in 2022 Namibia turned the primary African nation to agree to produce the European Union with inexperienced hydrogen and minerals wanted for clear vitality.
Final yr, Namibia started establishing Africa’s first decarbonised iron plant, to be powered solely by inexperienced hydrogen – which is extracted from water utilizing electrolysis powered by renewable vitality – blazing a path within the reform of steelmaking, one of many world’s most polluting industries.
These developments put Namibia forward of its economically greater and extra industrialised neighbour South Africa, whose inexperienced vitality transition efforts have been faltering.
Meaning Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, who replaces Mbumba as vp and was nominated by the governing South West Africa Individuals’s Organisation (SWAPO) simply over a yr in the past to be its candidate, will stay on the poll.
If she wins, she would be the southern African nation’s first feminine president.
“I’m not going to be round for the elections so do not panic,” Mbumba stated in a transfer that’s uncommon amongst African leaders who’ve usually sought to retain energy as soon as it’s of their palms.
“My intention was to be a faculty principal, which I achieved and now I’ve to thank the Namibian folks for the honour they’ve bestowed on me to be their president, for a brief interval,” Mbumba stated at his swearing-in ceremony.
SWAPO’s structure forbids making adjustments as soon as the candidate has been picked two years earlier than the ballot is due.
The occasion has dominated Namibia – a mining hotspot with plentiful diamonds, uranium and in addition lithium wanted for electrical automotive batteries – since independence from South Africa in 1990.
Geingob, in energy since 2015, died aged 82 within the early hours of Sunday after a short battle with most cancers.
“It’s poignant and reassuring to notice that right this moment, even on this time of heavy loss, our nation stays calm and steady,” Mbumba stated. “That is owing to the visionary management … of president Geingob who was the chief architect of the Namibian structure.”
Geingob leaves behind a middle-income nation preventing to push financial development above 3% following a pandemic-era slowdown and reverse racial inequalities left over from colonialism and annexation by South Africa’s former white minority authorities.
He led Namibia’s efforts to recast itself as a pacesetter of the worldwide inexperienced economic system and in 2022 Namibia turned the primary African nation to agree to produce the European Union with inexperienced hydrogen and minerals wanted for clear vitality.
Final yr, Namibia started establishing Africa’s first decarbonised iron plant, to be powered solely by inexperienced hydrogen – which is extracted from water utilizing electrolysis powered by renewable vitality – blazing a path within the reform of steelmaking, one of many world’s most polluting industries.
These developments put Namibia forward of its economically greater and extra industrialised neighbour South Africa, whose inexperienced vitality transition efforts have been faltering.
