Andrew "Bongi" Intamba (14 April 1947 – 8 April 2014) was a

Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

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and

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. Intamba served as the country's Director of the Central Intelligence Service from 1991 until 2007. He then joined the

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as a diplomat in February 2008.

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Hifikepunye Pohamba Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba (born 18 August 1936) 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 ...

appointed Intamba as Namibia's first

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in 2008, a position he held until his death. He was awarded the Order of Namibia Eagle 2nd Class medal in 2004. Intamba died of a short illness at the Rhino Park hospital in

Windhoek Windhoek (, , ) is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek in 20 ...

, on 8 April 2014, at the age of 67. He was survived by his wife, Johanna Intamba, four daughters, and a son.

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1947 births 2014 deaths Ambassadors of Namibia to Egypt Namibian diplomats {{Namibia-bio-stub