# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hifikepunye-pohamba
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:52:27.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hifikepunye-pohamba"
name: "Hifikepunye Pohamba"
slug: "hifikepunye-pohamba"
description: "Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba is a Namibian politician who served as the second president of Namibia from 21 March 2005 to 21 March 2015. He won the 2004 presidential election overwhelmingly as the candidate of SWAPO and was reelected in 2009. Pohamba was the president of SWAPO from 2007 until his retirement in 2015. He is a recipient of the Ibrahim Prize."
tagline: "Namibian politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pohamba_in_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1935-08-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.610169491525424
  historical:           21.20731333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump