After almost 6 years of negotiations with the Namibian government, Germany has agreed to pay Namibia €1.1bn, as it officially recognised the Herero-Nama genocide at the start of the 20th century, in what Angela Merkel’s government says amounts to a gesture of reconciliation but not legally binding reparations.
Source: The Guardian
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