guerrilla war

Now, four decades after leading Namibia through a bitter guerrilla war against South Africa's racist apartheid government and on to independence, Nujoma has died aged 95.

The introduction of sweeping apartheid legislation led to a guerrilla war of independence breaking out in 1966.

For more than six years, there has been a guerrilla war in Cameroon between government forces and insurgents who want certain parts of the country to become an independent state.

“When you’re fighting a guerrilla war, I think the ultimate success or failure is whether you’re able to survive,” he said.

He graduated in 1952, then served three years in the military, mostly in Southeast Asia, where Britain’s colonial forces were fighting a guerrilla war in present-day Malaysia.