Windhoek and Leonardville, Namibia – Impo Gift Kapamba Musasa holds a hose pipe in one hand and gestures to a garden of cabbages, onions and turnips with the other. He is a teacher in the crumbling village of Leonardville in rural Namibia, where water is becoming scarce.
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of the ruling SWAPO party won Namibia’s presidential elections outright in the first round with 57% of the vote, results published by the electoral commission on Tuesday showed. Clearing half the total votes cast meant no second-round runoff was necessary.
Voters in Namibia cast ballots to elect a new president and parliament in polls that could result in the country’s first female head of state being elected. Around 1.4 million people — roughly half of country’s population — are eligible to vote.
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