Sam Nujoma, Namibia's founding president and leader for 15 years, has died in the country's capital, Windhoek, on Saturday at 95, the Namibian presidency said in a post on Facebook. 

"Our founding father lived a long and consequential life during which he exceptionally served the people of his beloved country. Our founding father heroically marshaled the Namibian people during the darkest hours of our liberation struggle until the attainment of freedom and independence on the 21st of March 1990," said the post.

Sam Nujoma was the first president of independent Namibia from 1990 to 2005 after the country won independence from South Africa.