Namibia Gets First Female Prime Minister

The President-elect Hage Geingob has named Finance Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila as the country's prime minister.

She became the first woman Director General of the National Planning Commission and the youngest at the age of 27. She was also the first female finance minister; the first to record a surplus in the 2006/7 financial year; the longest-serving finance minister so far and soon to become Namibia's first female Prime Minister.