Cuba is one of the countries that actively contributed to Namibia’s independence from apartheid South Africa. Apart from providing the much needed ideological and logistical support to Namibia during the west African country’s arduous struggle for independence, Cuba sent an estimated 371,000 troops to fight alongside South West African People’s Organisation combatants in Angola over a period of 15 years and provided refuge to Namibians displaced by the war. When the crimson curtain closed on that brutal conflict, Namibia managed to free itself from the shackles of coloninal dominance. Cuba is many things to many people and is seen differently in different parts of the world. Here is one such perspective from Bill Simpich, an antiwar activist in the San Francisco Bay Area.

China had offered Namibia a loan of N$300 million on condition that the Namibian government waivers all tender procedures and contracts CMEC to do the work, although CMEC’s quote was ten times more expensive than South African and German railway construction companies in the same league.

RUSSIAN President Dmitry Medvedev’s Mercedes Benz limousine at the State House in Windhoek, Namibia. The Russians came with a delegation of 450 businessmen/women and other personel, including about 50 journalists, and flew their own VIP limo to Eqypt, Nigeria, Angola and Namibia. Pic Tawanda Kanhema

THREE African wild dogs were struck and killed by speeding motorists inside Babwata National Park in north eastern Namibia last week, dealing a blow to Namibia’s fast shrinking wild population now believed to be less than 300 wild dogs.