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Namibia has criticized Germany’s support for Israel against the genocide allegations made by South Africa in a message by the country’s presidential office on social media platform X. “Germany committed the first genocide of the 20th century” on Namibian soil, the office said, referring to the brutal suppression of the Nama and Herero uprising against German colonial rule 120 years ago. Germany could not morally commit itself to the UN Convention against Genocide and while at the same time support “the equivalent of a holocaust and genocide in Gaza,” the Namibian Presidency’s X profile said in…

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