Namibia's President Hage Geingob, 82, died in hospital early on Sunday, the presidency said, weeks after he was diagnosed with cancer.
Geingob had been in charge of the thinly populated and mostly arid southern African country since 2015, the year he announced he had survived prostate cancer.
Vice President Nangolo Mbumba takes the helm in Namibia - a mining hotspot with significant deposits of diamonds and the electric car battery ingredient lithium - until presidential and parliamentary elections at the end of the year.
Hage Gottfried Geingob served as the third president of Namibia from 2015 until his death in February 2024. According to his wife as she paid tribute on his memorial, she narrated that Dr Hage was born a peasant and died a president. He died at age 82