The speaker of the German parliament on Wednesday said the slaughter of indigenous Namibians a century ago constituted a "genocide" that stemmed from a "race war."

Norbert Lammert, writing in a guest column for news weekly Die Zeit, said the Herero and Nama peoples had been systematically targeted for massacre by German imperial troops.

Namibia and China are discussing plans for a Chinese naval base in the southwest African country, the Namibian newspaper reported Tuesday, prompting an immediate denial from Beijing.

The Namibian quoted a confidential letter from Namibia's Beijing ambassador to his foreign ministry stating that a Chinese delegation would visit Windhoek for discussions "on the way forward regarding plans for the proposed naval base in Walvis Bay”.

Namibian Prime Minister Hage Geingob has won the country's presidential election, the Electoral Commission said Monday, with the ruling SWAPO party securing a landslide win in national polls billed as the continent's first e-vote.

Geingob, 73, who ran on a platform of "peace, stability and prosperity", becomes president-elect with a massive haul of 87 percent of the vote.

The first trickle of results in Namibia's general election gave the ruling SWAPO party a commanding lead Saturday, as it bids to extend a 24-year grip on power in the vast desert nation.

With a few districts in the north of the country reporting, the Electoral Commission of Namibia said early Saturday that 73-year-old Prime Minister Hage Geingob was winning the presidential vote with 77 percent and his closest rival trailing in single digits.

Namibians voted on Friday in a general election billed as Africa's first e-vote, with the ruling party expected to retain power in the country it has run since independence.

Voting began at 0500 GMT across the country, with voters standing in long lines before day break including some first-time "born free" voters -- those born after Namibia gained independence from South Africa in 1990.

Four people including a three-year-old boy have died after a military helicopter crashed in north-east Namibia, the defense ministry and military sources said Saturday.

The helicopter crashed shortly after take-off early Friday, killing three of the 10 people on board instantly and injuring the toddler, who died later in hospital, military sources said.

Police on Saturday found the burned wreckage of a Mozambican Airlines plane the day after it went missing in northeastern Namibia, saying none of the 33 people aboard had survived.

The crash in the remote, swampy terrain of Namibia's Bwabwata National Park killed victims from several countries and is one of the worst accidents on record in Mozambique's civil aviation history.

Reduced donor funding has forced the Namibian government to shrink the supply of free condoms, a government report said Tuesday, threatening the country's fight against sexually transmitted diseases.

A ministry of health and social services study seen by Agence France Presse shows free condom distribution has fallen from 25 million condoms five years ago to 15 million in 2011-2012.

Roger Palmgren has quit as Namibia coach after receiving unspecified threats, the country's football association said on Monday.

"Palmgren tendered his resignation due to serious threats directed toward him and his family," a national football association statement said.

The Namibia Press Agency reports that some 40 babies and fetuses are dumped and flushed down toilets every month in Windhoek, Namibia's capital of just 350,000 people.

It quotes Women in Action Development chief Veronica De Klerk as blaming violence against women and parents' failures.