The 72-year-old Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, nicknamed NNN, was sworn in as the first female president of the southern African nation of Namibia.

• Her SWAPO party, which has ruled the country of about 3 million people for over three decades, won both the presidential and parliamentary elections in November. 
• Nandi-Ndaitwah, who previously served as vice president, won 58% of the vote.
• Outgoing 83-year-old President Nangolo Mbumba handed over power in a ceremony that coincided with Namibia's 35th anniversary of independence and was moved from the Independence Stadium to State House in Windhoek due to rare heavy rains.
• Nandi-Ndaitwah is the latest in a small list of women  to hold the presidency in Africa. Others include Ellen Sirleaf Johnson in Liberia, Joyce Banda of Malawi, and Samia Suluhu Hassan in Tanzania.
• Sirleaf and Banda, now former leaders of their countries, and Tanzania's current president, Hassan, all attended Nandi-Ndaitwah's inauguration.