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...What They're Selling In Namibia: On Oct. 28, Namibia's government held the first legal ivory auction since 1999, with more than seven tons of elephant tusks raising over $1 million from buyers in China and Japan. The sale--sanctioned by an international-wildlife-trade agreement--will soon be followed by auctions in Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, with the proceeds earmarked for elephant conservation efforts. Detractors say the auctions could rekindle black-market demand for ivory...
...OPEC members are probably using all the cash sucked from the consumers to buy up stocks of companies in the industrialized world at half price. Unless the stranglehold of OPEC on the world's oil supply is broken, the world will remain at its mercy. Willem Boshoff, WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA...
Ahtisaari, a former primary-school teacher, joined the Finnish Foreign Ministry as a diplomat in the mid-'60s. His first peace mediation job was as U.N. envoy to Namibia, where guerrillas were fighting the apartheid government of South Africa. He spent 20 years abroad as a diplomat for Finland and the U.N. before contesting and winning the presidential election in 1994, serving one term before returning to mediation work full time...
...have been in 2005, when he hosted talks between the Indonesian government and separatist rebels from the province of Aceh that ultimately led to the cessation of hostilities after 130 years of fighting. He also helped bring an end to war and nearly 10 years of negotiations in Namibia, paving the way to that country's independence in 1990. In Iraq, the diplomat has hosted talks between feuding Sunni and Shi'ite groups, modeled on successful dialogues in South Africa and Northern Ireland...
...fish, man shoots crocodile, man dies of malaria. But for a few weeks a year, South Africa witnesses the climax of a somewhat gentler natural cycle. Most of the time, Namaqualand is a featureless swath of scrub desert running from just north of Cape Town up the coast to Namibia. From August to October, however, these plains explode in a display of wild flowers. What was once brown, dusty and flat is transformed into a sea of pinks, oranges, yellows, whites, purples and reds. Better still, there are few towns around, so if you go to see one of Africa...