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Namibia
Germany's billion-euro fund to atone for Namibia genocide slow in coming

Memorial in the capital Windhoek to the genocide of the Herero and the Nama committed by German colonial troops, photographed in 2019.
Memorial in the capital Windhoek to the genocide of the Herero and the Nama committed by German colonial troops, photographed in 2019. © Jürgen Bätz/dpa/AFP
Funds that Berlin pledged to pay in recognition of the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples in Namibia in the early 20th century have not yet been released. German and Namibian domestic politics have further slowed an already complex process. [...]
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