# President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has repeated calls for Germany to pay reparations for its genocide against Namibian tribes as she led the first official commemoration of the atrocity more than 120 years ago. Thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people were massacred by colonial-era German troops between 1904 and 1908 after they rebelled against their rule in what is regarded as the first genocide of the 20th century. Berlin has offered an apology but there is still no agreement on reparations in talks that began with the German government in 2013.
Namibia still seeking reparations for German genocide 120 years ago