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The German government has confirmed more than a billion dollars in development aid for Namibia in a statement which recognised the genocidal killings carried out by colonial settlers against indigenous people in the first years of the 20th Century. In 2015, the two countries started negotiating an agreement which would combine an official apology with financial support. But there is much controversy over this agreement as Jurgen Zimmerer, Professor for Global History at the University of Hamburg, explains.

(Picture: Swakopmund Concentration Camp Memorial in Namibia, in honour of the Herero and Nama people who were victims of the genocide by German colonial forces between 1904-1908. Credit: Getty Images)