Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari (born 8 December 1974 in Windhoek) is a

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n who serves as the presidential press secretary to President

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. Hengari schooled at A. Shipena High School in

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and enrolled for B.A. in political science and sociology at the

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and thereafter taught at his former high school before enrolling for master's degree in international studies at the

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, his Masters thesis at Stellenbosch focused on the regional economic partnership agreements between the

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and the

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(SADC). While at Stellenbosch, he also served as a tutor in the Department of Political Science. He served as Prime Minister

's personal assistant and thereafter as coordinator for the Civil Service College project for a few months before he left for France in March 2003. After following intensive French-language courses at the Université de Franche-Comté, he first completed a diploma in French history and civilisation at the Université Paris-Sorbonne IV, before he proceeded to do an M-Phil in international relations at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He completed a PhD in political science at the

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focusing on the transformation of French and British strategies in conflict management in Sub-saharan Africa. He was a research intern in 2007 at the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations in New York as part of his PhD research. Hengari was also a weekly political columnist for Namibia's largest independent English daily, ''

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''. He provides regular commentary for other newspapers in Namibia such '' New Era'' on political events and developments.

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