The fund would promote energy, education and housing projects as well as a land reform in Namibia, the Sächsiche Zeitung reported this week. Germany’s Namibia Commissioner, Ruprecht Polenz (CDU), announced the atonement plans on Monday evening during a discussion with journalists in Berlin. The fund would be accompanied by an official apology from Germany for the colonial crimes against the Herero and Nama peoples during the German colonial period. Norbert Lammert, speaker of the German parliament, has previously called the slaughter of indigenous Namibians by German colonial forces a genocide. This contradicts a report from the newspaper The Namibian which stated that Namibia wanted to sue Germany for $30 billion (about € 27.9 billion) as compensation.

Source: The Local March 23, 2017 15:05 UTC