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It is a shrub endemic to Namibia [1] where it grows in Karroo-Namib shrubland. [2] It belongs to tribe Caesalpinieae [ 1 ] of subfamily Caesalpinioideae . [ 3 ]
The United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) was a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force deployed from April 1989 to March 1990 in Namibia, known at the time as South West Africa, to monitor the peace process and elections there. Namibia had been occupied by South Africa since 1915, first under a League of Nations mandate and later ...
The roles vary according to the unit. The Parachute Battalion role is to be dropped to an objective via static line parachuting. The Pathfinder unit is a special reconnaissance unit of the Parachute Battalion, its role is to deploy small units to search a potential land zone and set it up before the larger parachute unit is dropped there making them the eyes and ears of the parachute unit.
Namibia (/ n ə ˈ m ɪ b i ə / ⓘ [17] [18]), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean.It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the east and south.
Karasburg has an extreme climate most of the year with temperatures rising well over 40 degrees Celsius in summer and dropping to sub-zero in winter. [3] Low rainfall is experienced in this region (annual average rainfall: 128 millimetres (5.0 in) at the Karasburg weather station), [6] the rainy season usually arriving in early January and leaving as late as early April.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 435, adopted on September 29, 1978, put forward proposals for a cease-fire and UN-supervised elections in South African-controlled South West Africa which ultimately led to the independence of Namibia.
Mercury Island is situated 800 metres offshore in Spencer Bay, 110 kilometres north of Lüderitz.The island is only 750 metres long (North-South) and about 270 metres wide, reaching a height of 38 metres above sea level.
Namibia, with a long Atlantic coastline, borders Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The South West Africa Territorial Force (SWATF) was an auxiliary arm of the South African Defence Force (SADF) and comprised the armed forces of South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1977 to 1989. [1]