According to a statement released by the presidential office, Namibian President Hage Geingob passed away early on Sunday in a hospital in Windhoek. He was 82.
Geingob, who was serving his second term as president, uncovered last month that he was getting therapy for malignant growth.
“It is with most extreme bitterness and lament that I illuminate you that our cherished Dr. Hage G. Geingob, the Leader of the Republic of Namibia has passed on today”, read the explanation on X, previously Twitter, endorsed by acting president Nangolo Mbumba.
“Next to him, was his dear spouse Madame Monica Geingos and his kids.”
A biopsy following a normal clinical examination in January had uncovered “harmful cells”, Geingob’s office said at that point.
Geingob, the third president of Namibia and the longest-serving prime minister, was first elected president in 2014.
Geingob had brain surgery in 2013 and an aortic operation last year in South Africa, a neighboring country.
He had been receiving treatment at Windhoek’s Lady Pohamba Hospital up until the time he passed away.
“The Namibian country has lost a recognized worker of individuals, a freedom battle symbol, the central designer of our constitution and the mainstay of the Namibian house,” said Mbumba.
“I appeal to the nation to remain calm and collected while the Government attends to all necessary state arrangements, preparations, and other protocols at this moment of deepest sorrow.”
He stated that the Cabinet would immediately meet to make the necessary arrangements for the state.
Brought into the world in a town in northern Namibia in 1941, Geingob was the southern African country’s most memorable president beyond the Ovambo ethnic gathering, which makes up the greater part the nation’s populace.
Before being driven into exile, he engaged in activism against the apartheid regime in South Africa that at the time ruled Namibia.
He spent very nearly thirty years in Botswana and the US, leaving the previous for the last option in 1964.
Namibia is to hold official and public gathering decisions towards the year’s end.
