Five things to know about Namibia’s first woman president

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah will become one of Africa’s few women leaders when she is inaugurated as president of Namibia on Friday.

Here are five things to know about the next leader of this stable and mineral-rich country of around three million people in the south of the continent.

– Ruling party stalwart –
NNN, as she is popularly known, is a long-time loyalist of the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) that has governed…