2024-02-04 06:20:02
CAIRO (AP) — Namibian President Hage Geingob died Sunday while receiving medical treatment, his office announced.
Geingob’s medical team at the Lady Pohamba hospital did everything they could to help him, but the president died alongside his wife, Monica Geingos, and his children, according to the Namibian presidency in a post on the social network Twitter.
The president was receiving treatment for cancer. Geingob, 82, underwent a colonoscopy and gastroscopy on Jan. 8 followed by a biopsy, his office said this month.
Angolo Mbumba, the country’s acting president, called for calm and said in the same publication that “the government will meet with immediate effect to make the necessary arrangements in this regard.”
Geingob, who has presided over the southern African nation since 2015, was scheduled to finish his second and final term this year. In 2014 he said that he had survived prostate cancer.
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