diff --git a/lib/tokenize.cpp b/lib/tokenize.cpp
index c66def4f0..7bf490f0c 100644
--- a/lib/tokenize.cpp
+++ b/lib/tokenize.cpp
@@ -10169,11 +10169,14 @@ void Tokenizer::simplifyNamespaceAliases()
     int scope = 0;
 
     for (Token *tok = list.front(); tok; tok = tok->next()) {
+        bool isPrev{};
         if (tok->str() == "{")
             scope++;
         else if (tok->str() == "}")
             scope--;
-        else if (Token::Match(tok, "namespace %name% =")) {
+        else if (Token::Match(tok, "namespace %name% =") || (isPrev = Token::Match(tok->previous(), "namespace %name% ="))) {
+            if (isPrev)
+                tok = tok->previous();
             const std::string name(tok->next()->str());
             Token * tokNameStart = tok->tokAt(3);
             Token * tokNameEnd = tokNameStart;
diff --git a/test/testsimplifytokens.cpp b/test/testsimplifytokens.cpp
index b425e28a2..1db88f2ba 100644
--- a/test/testsimplifytokens.cpp
+++ b/test/testsimplifytokens.cpp
@@ -1455,6 +1455,9 @@ private:
                           "}"
                           "namespace AB = A::B;" //duplicate declaration
                           "}"));
+        ASSERT_EQUALS(";",
+                      tok("namespace p = boost::python;\n"
+                          "namespace np = boost::numpy;\n"));
 
         // redeclared nested namespace aliases
         TODO_ASSERT_EQUALS("namespace A { namespace B { void foo ( ) { bar ( A :: B :: ab ( ) ) ; { baz ( A :: a ( ) ) ; } bar ( A :: B :: ab ( ) ) ; } } }",