Editor's Review

The president who had graced Kelvin Kiptum's burial the previous day landed in Namibia on Saturday morning.

President William Ruto landed in Windhoek, Namibia on the morning of Saturday, February 24.

Ruto was joining other ranking dignitaries from Africa at the  Independence Stadium for the state funeral of the deceased Namibian president Hage Geingob.

Geingob who died on February 4 after a long battle with cancer will be laid to rest on Sunday, February 25 at the Namibia Heroes' Acre.

President William Ruto staring at the portrait of the late Hage Geingob while paying his last respects.

Geingob is hailed as an anti-apartheid activist.

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For a time, he had health complications that saw him undergo sophisticated surgeries.

He had ailed from prostate cancer for nine years between 2014 and 2024.

In 2013, the now-deceased head of state underwent brain surgery.

A military carriage ferrying the body of the late Hage Geingob.

In 2023, Geingob was admitted to a South African hospital where he underwent aortic surgery.

He took over the reins of power in 2015 and was Namibia's leader until his death recently while aged 82.

With Ruto at the memorial service were other African heads of state; among them Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa President of Zimbabwe, Tanzania's Samia Suluhu, Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, and Nana Akufo-Ado of Ghana.