Namibia to Set Up Firm for German Genocide Victims’ Descendants

  • Germany committed to funding 1.1 billion euros of projects
  • Windhoek wants talks with Berlin to raise reparations amount
The Nama and Herero Genocide Memorial site on Shark Island peninsula near Luderitz, Namibia.Photographer: Hildegard Titus/AFP/Getty Images
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Namibia plans to set up a special purpose vehicle that descendants of victims of the 1904-1908 genocide will manage and control, Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said.

The SPV will oversee the allocation and use of funds earmarked for reconstruction and reconciliation programs for affected communities, Nandi-Ndaitwah said at the Chiefs Forum Thursday in the capital, Windhoek.