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Namibia Country Report
news from Namibia
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Found 59 articles.
- Vol 41 No 23
- 24/11/2000
It's party time
The ruling parties of Namibia, Angola, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique would work together to root out agents of imperialism in Southern Africa, said South West Africa People's Organisation Secretary General Hifikepunye Pohamba at the end of October...
- Vol 41 No 18
- 15/09/2000
Murderous border
The new chief of the Namibia Defence Force is Major General Solomon 'Jesus' Hawala, which worries many Namibians (AC Vol 31 Nos 19 & 20). In the undeclared war along the north-eastern border with Angola, the security forces are widely believed to invo...
- Vol 41 No 14
- 07/07/2000
Too dry for crops
Redistribution sounds like a good idea until you look at the land itself
- Vol 41 No 2
- 21/01/2000
SWAPO steamroller
Peaceful elections are followed by worries about overspill from the Angola war
- Vol 40 No 17
- 27/08/1999
A hammer to a nut
Mysterious documents are doing the rounds in Paris claiming that Sassou wants to retire
- Vol 40 No 17
- 27/08/1999
On the fringe of a war
Mishake Muyongo leapt out of the obscurity of his Danish exile on 2 August when Caprivian separatists attacked Katima Mulilo. He says the raid on Caprivi's capital opens a struggle which could end if the Namibian government begins talks on Caprivian ...
- Vol 40 No 7
- 02/04/1999
Ulenga's challenge
Ben Ulenga, who resigned last year as Namibia's High Commissioner to Britain in protest at intolerance in the ruling South West African People's Organisation, has helped launch a new party, provisionally called the Congress of Democrats (CD). He has not s...
- Vol 40 No 1
- 08/01/1999
Out on a limb
Remote Caprivi is the route to Zambia and Zimbabwe and secessionism is growing
- Vol 40 No 1
- 08/01/1999
Small but strategic
The Caprivi Zipfel (Strip) is a 500-kilometre-long finger of land which connects north-eastern Namibia to Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is named after a German Chancellor, General Count Georg Leo von Caprivi, who negotiated its transfer from British c...
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