Namibia's 'founding father' Sam Nujoma dies aged 95

FILE PHOTO: Namibian President Sam Nujoma arrives at the airport in Abuja, Nigeria, January 29, 2005. African Union leaders are in Nigeria for the African Union summit. REUTERS/George Esiri GE/DL/File Photo

WINDHOEK (Reuters) -Sam Nujoma, the activist and guerrilla leader who became Namibia's first democratically elected president after it won its independence from apartheid South Africa, died aged 95 on Saturday, the Namibian Presidency said on Sunday.

Nujoma rose to head the thinly populated southern African country on March 21, 1990 and was formally recognised as "Founding Father of the Namibian Nation" through a 2005 act of parliament.