Namibia’s new president means business when it comes to reparations from Germany for the genocide it perpetrated against her people at the start of the 20th century. In an interview with the BBC, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said that the just-over-a-billion euros already paid out would not suffice – and that she’s confident Berlin won’t drag its feet to reach a more just settlement. Between 1904 and 1908, colonial forces exterminated three-quarters of Herero and half of Nama people in what was then German South West Africa.
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