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Namibia holds first Genocide Remembrance Day

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May 28, 2025

Namibia is commemorating the country's first annual Genocide Remembrance Day, with the president reiterating her call for Germany to pay reparations. Tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people were massacred by colonial-era German troops over a four-year period. Has today's Germany done enough to make up for its responsibility?

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