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Samuel Ankama

Politician

Samuel Ankama is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Ankama, Samuel · Samuel Ankama				[sources]
Alias	Samuel Ankama				[sources]
Birth date	1957-10-27				[sources]
Place of birth	Otshaandja				[sources]
Death date	2021-07-04				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Namibia				[sources]
Country	Namibia				[sources]
Citizenship	Namibia				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Samuel				[sources]
Political association	SWAPO Party				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q7410772				[sources]
Position	Member of the National Assembly of Namibia · National Assembly (member, 2005-2010) · National Assembly (member, 2010-2015) · National Assembly (member, 2015-)				[sources]
Education	University of Edinburgh · University of Maryland, Baltimore County · University of Warwick				[sources]
Last change	2026-01-18	Last processed	2026-01-18	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Namibian politician (1957-2021)

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the National Assembly	-	-
Member of the National Assembly	2005-03-20	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators40,660

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons316,582

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions526,214

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata333,668

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

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