African chief introduced final month that he had begun remedy for most cancers.
Namibian President Hage Geingob has died on the age of 82, his workplace has introduced, lower than a month after it was introduced he would endure remedy for most cancers.
Geingob died on Sunday at Girl Pohamba Hospital within the capital Windhoek along with his spouse and his kids at his facet, performing president Nangolo Mbumba siad in a press release posted on Geingob’s official Fb web page.
“The Namibian nation has misplaced a distinguished servant of the individuals, a liberation battle icon, the chief architect of our structure and the pillar of the Namibian home,” Mbumba mentioned.
“At this second of deepest sorrow, I enchantment to the nation to stay calm and picked up whereas the Authorities attends to all obligatory state preparations, preparations and different protocols. Additional bulletins on this regard might be made.”
Geingob’s workplace introduced final month that the African chief had begun remedy following the invention of “cancerous cells” throughout a routine colonoscopy and a gastroscopy.
His workplace mentioned on the time he can be travelling to the USA for medical care and would return to Namibia in February.
Geingob had a historical past of well being issues that preceded his election as Namibia’s third president in 2014.
He underwent an aortic operation final 12 months in neighbouring South Africa, and in 2014 he revealed that he had survived prostate most cancers.
Namibia, a former German colony which achieved independence from South Africa in 1990, is scheduled to carry presidential and parliamentary elections in November.