By Ikugbadi Oluwasegun
Hage Geingob, 82 years Namibia’s President has died in the hospital early hours on Sunday, the presidency said, weeks after he was diagnosed with cancer.
Geingob had been in charge of the thinly populated and mostly arid southern African country since 2015, the year he announced he had survived prostate cancer.
Nangolo Mbumba, Vice President takes the helm in Namibia, a mining hotspot with significant deposits of diamonds and the electric car battery ingredient lithium – until presidential and parliamentary elections at the end of the year.
In 2013, the anti-apartheid activist-turned-politician underwent brain surgery, and the following year he revealed that he had survived prostate cancer.
Last year, Geingob announced he had undergone aortic surgery in neighbouring South Africa.