{"id":18284,"date":"2024-02-04T02:40:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/hage-geingob-namibias-president-is-dead-at-82\/04\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-04T02:40:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T07:40:07","slug":"hage-geingob-namibias-president-is-dead-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/hage-geingob-namibias-president-is-dead-at-82\/04\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Hage Geingob, Namibia\u2019s President, Is Dead at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Hage G. Geingob of Namibia, who took office in 2015 and previously served as the country\u2019s first prime minister after independence, died early Sunday. He was 82.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The presidential office <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NamPresidency\/status\/1753963884828823682\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced his death<\/a> in a statement on social media that was attributed to Vice President Nangolo Mbumba, now the acting president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Geingob, who had been receiving treatment for cancer, died at a hospital in the capital, Windhoek, just after midnight, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He was Namibia\u2019s first prime minister from 1990, the year that the country gained independence from South Africa, until 2002. He served again in that role 10 years later, before being elected president. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">This is a developing story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/03\/world\/africa\/hage-geingob-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hage G. Geingob of Namibia, who took office in 2015 and previously served as the country&rsquo;s first prime minister after independence,<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/hage-geingob-namibias-president-is-dead-at-82\/04\/02\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}