Namibia has marked the mass killings of Indigenous people by former colonial ruler Germany in the early 20th century with its first genocide remembrance day.

Dubbed "Germany's forgotten genocide", and described by historians as the first genocide of the 20th Century, the systematic murder of more than 70,000 Africans is being marked with a national day of remembrance for the first time in Namibia.

NAMIBIA marked the mass killings of indigenous people in the early 20th century by former colonial ruler Germany with its first genocide remembrance day on Wednesday.