Namibia Swore in 1st Female President

On Friday, Namibia swore in its first female president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. She became also the second-ever directly elected female president in Africa.

"If things go well then it will be seen as a good example," Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah told BBC's Africa Daily podcast. "But if anything then happens, like it can happen in any administration under men, there are also those who would rather say: 'Look at women!'"

Nandi-Ndaitwah is one of the oldest and strongest living members of the South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo).

She joined Swapo, then a liberation movement resisting South Africa's white-minority rule at the age of 14.

"Truly, land is a serious problem in this country," she told the BBC, adding: "We still have some white citizens and more particularly the absent land owners who are occupying the land."

The new president has several challenges, mainly the tough economic conditions of the country's population, in addition to unemployment, and inequality.