As of July 2008, a total of 5, 900 Namibia Defence Force troops had been rotated through Liberia as part of the United Nations Mission in Liberia.

Namibia's Defence Force comprises two of the former enemies in a 23-year bush war: the Peoples Liberation Army of Namibia ( PLAN ) and South West African Territorial Force ( SWATF ).

The main roles of the Namibia Defence Force are to ensure the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country by guarding against external aggression, both conventional and unconventional ; prevent violation of Namibia ’ s territorial integrity ; and provide assistance to civil authorities in guarding and protecting government buildings and key installations as provided in the Defence Act.

President Hifikepunye Pohamba suspended Lieutenant General Martin Shalli from his post as Chief of Defence Force in 2009 over corruption allegations, dating back to the time when Shalli served as Namibia ’ s High Commissioner to Zambia .. During the time of the suspension, Peter Nambundunga acted as Chief.

In 1998, Namibia Defence Force ( NDF ) troops were sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of a Southern African Development Community ( SADC ) contingent.

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Just as Namibia was set for independence, fighting broke out on April 1, 1989 in the region between People's Liberation Army of Namibia combatants and soldiers in the occupying South African Defence Forces.

* Namibia Defence Force

* Minister of Defence ( Namibia )

The former South African Defence Force base in Outapi, Omusati Region | Omusati, Namibia.

* Operation Savannah: Less than one month before Angola's scheduled independence from Portugal, troops from the South African Defence Force invaded by crossing the border from the trust territory of South-West Africa ( now Namibia ).

** First battle between the South African Defense Force and the armed wing of SWAPO-PLAN takes place at Ongulumbashe in Northern Namibia.

On the eastern edge of the city centre the two roads split, and the N1 turns east as Table Bay Boulevard, passing the Ysterplaat Air Force Base and Century City before the N7 intersects it on its own way out of the city towards Namibia.

ARIN formerly covered Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe until AfriNIC was formed.

The second point of transfer was near the Caprivi Strip and the Okavango River, where it was apparently the Yeyi language which borrowed the clicks from a West Kalihari Khoe language, and which in turn passed on a reduced click inventory to the neighboring Mbukushu, Kwangali, Gciriku, Kuhane, and Fwe languages in Angola, Namibia, Botswana, and Zambia.

A cease-fire was signed on 10 July 1999 by the DROC, Zimbabwe, Angola, Uganda, Namibia, Rwanda, and Congolese armed rebel groups, but fighting continued.

Diogo Cão (; in old Portuguese: Cam ) was a Portuguese explorer and one of the most notable navigators of the Age of Discovery, who made two voyages sailing along the west coast of Africa to Namibia in the 1480s.

He was the first European known to sight and enter the Congo River and to explore the West African coast between Cape St. Catherine and Cape Cross, almost from the equator to Walvis Bay in Namibia.

During the South African occupation of Namibia, Ethiopia was one of the country's leading proponents abroad ; Ethiopia and Liberia were the first two states to bring the question of independence for then South West Africa to the United Nations.

In 2004, a follow-up analysis of the entire online gaming industry indicated that the combined GDP of the online " worlds " populated by the two million players was approximately the same as that of Namibia.

The mandatory nature of such resolutions was upheld by the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) in its advisory opinion on Namibia.

) Kenya's first peacekeeping deployment was to UNTAG in Namibia ; from 1989 to 2001, Kenyan troops took part in UNTAG, UNOSOM, UNPROFOR, UNCRO ( Croatia ), UNTAES, UNOMIL, UNPREDEP in MAcedonia ( 1996-1999 ), MONUA in Angola ( 1997-1999 ), and UNTAET in East Timor ( 1999-2001 ).

Their monopoly was unsuccessfully challenged in the courts by MWeb Namibia in May 2007 and again in August 2011

According to a Bushmen folk tale of Namibia, the zebra was once all white, but acquired its black stripes after a fight with a baboon over a waterhole.

** In Namibia, fighting erupts between SWAPO guerillas and the South West African Police, on the day that a cease-fire was supposed to end the South African Border War according to United Nations Security Council Resolution 435.

From there it was taken to Namibia, where it was released in 1990 and enthusiastically adopted by farmers.

South-West Africa ( Afrikaans: Suidwes-Afrika ; German: Südwestafrika ) was the name that was used for the modern day Republic of Namibia during the earlier eras when the territory was controlled by the German Empire and later by South Africa.

In 1971, acting on a request for an advisory opinion from the United Nations Security Council, the ICJ ruled that the continued presence of South Africa in Namibia was illegal and that South Africa was under an obligation to withdraw from Namibia immediately.

Walvis Bay, which is now in Namibia, was originally a part of the Union of South Africa as it was a part of the Cape Colony at the time of Unification.

This claim was formally recognized by Germany the following day by Article III of the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty, which confirmed the western boundary of the British protectorate of Bechuanaland and the German protectorate of South-West Africa and also created the Caprivi strip inherited by modern Namibia:

The post-colonial rise of newly independent black governments on the apartheid administration's doorstep created a perceived menace to the existing structure, and Pretoria's occupation of Namibia threatened to bring it into direct confrontation with the world community.

In Ghana, Namibia, and Nigeria, diastema is regarded as being attractive and a sign of fertility, and some people have even had them created through cosmetic dentistry.

South-West Africa became known internationally as Namibia when the UN General Assembly changed the territory's name by Resolution 2372 ( XXII ) of 12 June 1968.

As with the Oorlams, they were forced northwards by the expansion of white settlers when, in 1868, a group of about 90 families crossed the Orange River into Namibia.

It was not until the 19th century, when European powers sought to carve up the African continent between them in the so called " Scramble for Africa ", that Europeans – Germany and Great Britain in the forefront – became interested in Namibia.

The first territorial claim on a part of Namibia came when Britain occupied Walvis Bay, confirming the settlement of 1797, and permitted the Cape Colony to annex it in 1878.

Finally, in 1987 when prospects for Namibian independence seemed to be improving, the fourth UN Commissioner for Namibia Bernt Carlsson was appointed.

Kurt Mondaugen, who will appear again in Gravity's Rainbow, is the central character in a story set in South-West Africa ( now Namibia ) partly during a siege in 1922 at which one Vera Meroving is present, but most notably in 1904, during the Herero Wars, when South-West Africa was a German colony.

He led the South-West Africa People's Organisation ( SWAPO ) in its long struggle against South African rule and took office as President when Namibia obtained independence on 21 March 1990.

This may also occur if there is a significant difference in class between the two teams, for example, when Scotland beat Spain ( who were playing in their only Rugby World Cup ) 48 – 0 in the 1999 Rugby World Cup, or when Australia beat Namibia 142 – 0 in the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

The only other mainland colony is in Namibia, but it is not known when this was established.

Etosha was first established in 1907, when Namibia was a German colony known as South West Africa.

Many Herero migrated south to Namibia when the Portuguese launched a military expedition against them in 1940 following their refusal to pay taxes.

The car's safety levels were first proved when during a testing in Namibia in April 1993, a test driver wearing just shorts and t-shirt hit a rock and rolled the first prototype car several times.

He took a two-year break for Zimbabwe in from 2005 to 2007 when he played a season as the captain of Namibia and another season for the Cape Cobras in South Africa.

Katutura is a township within Windhoek that was founded by the then apartheid government of Namibia for black people in the 1950s, when the previous township, Old Location, was converted into the suburb Hochland Park.

Immediately prior to independence, he was a SWAPO member of the Constituent Assembly, which was in place from November 1989 to March 1990, and when Namibia gained its independence in 1990, he became a member of the National Assembly and the Minister of Information and Broadcasting.

Groups in Angola include the Kuvale, Zemba, Hakawona, Tjavikwa, Tjimba and Himba, who regularly cross the Namibia / Angola border when migrating with their herds.

The German speaking minority in Namibia stems from the short lived German colonial period when thousands of German settlers and the Schutztruppe arrived.

He became head coach of the Eastwood club in Sydney in 1993 and a year later gained representative recognition when he was appointed fitness and skills coach for the Emerging Wallabies ' tour of Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa.

Prior to 1870 the Damara occupied most of central Namibia, but large numbers were displaced when the Nama and Herero began to occupy this area in search of better grazing.

On March 21, 2005, when Pohamba was sworn in as President of Namibia, he announced that he was appointing Angula as Prime Minister of Namibia.