APA-Windhoek (Namibia) Namibia’s President Hage Geingob succumbed to cancer on Sunday while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the capital Windhoek, his office has announced.
In a statement, Acting President Nangolo Mbumba said Geingob, 82, died at Lady Pohamba Hospital with his wife and children at his side.
“The Namibian nation has lost a distinguished servant of the people, a liberation struggle icon, the chief architect of our constitution and the pillar of the Namibian house,” Mbumba said.
The death comes less than three weeks after the Presidency announced that Geingob would undergo treatment for cancer.
Geingob’s office announced last month that he had begun treatment following the discovery of “cancerous cells” during a routine colonoscopy and gastroscopy.
He returned from the United States last week where he had gone for treatment and was being attended to by local doctors at the Windhoek hospital when he passed away.
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