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Tag: Namibia

Some Unlikely Countries That Have Digital Nomad Visas
ArchivesTravel

Some Unlikely Countries That Have Digital Nomad Visas

April 21, 2023July 12, 2023

With East Asia reopened for tourism, the COVID-19 travel insanity is well and truly over, and there are going…

Rhino Poaching Surged 93% in Namibia Last Year—Study Shows Wealth May Be Key to Stopping It
ArchivesConservation

Rhino Poaching Surged 93% in Namibia Last Year—Study Shows Wealth May Be Key to Stopping It

January 31, 2023July 13, 2023

In one of Namibia’s flagship attractions and largest wildlife sanctuaries, rhino poaching surged 93% in 2022, with 87 black…

Test Drilling for the World’s Last Great Undiscovered Oil Reserve Commences in the Okavango Basin
Environment

Test Drilling for the World’s Last Great Undiscovered Oil Reserve Commences in the Okavango Basin

February 1, 2021

160 miles upstream from the Okavango Delta, a drilling rig plunges through the sand looking for oil or natural…

Namibia in Southern Africa is the Closest Thing to the United States in Africa
Travel

Namibia in Southern Africa is the Closest Thing to the United States in Africa

February 3, 2020

Namibia in south-west Africa is “Africa for beginners,” and offers opportunities for classic and inexpensive African excitement in a…

By Our Very Nature, Dignity and the Human Being are Indivisible
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

By Our Very Nature, Dignity and the Human Being are Indivisible

January 8, 2020June 30, 2023

I always say about life that opportunities come when things are happening, and things happen when you make ripples…

Go to Where the Boot Tracks End… Then Keep Going
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

Go to Where the Boot Tracks End… Then Keep Going

December 31, 2019June 30, 2023

There’s nothing quite so engaging as a good mystery. I was still in Swakopmund as I had become accustomed…

Swakopmund is a Beach Town Paradise that’s Not Quite what it Seems
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

Swakopmund is a Beach Town Paradise that’s Not Quite what it Seems

December 24, 2019June 30, 2023

Swakopmund is a little slice of Germany in The middle of the desert. Afrikaners and Germans mingle together among…

Macro and Micro – the Special Beauty of the Namib Desert
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

Macro and Micro – the Special Beauty of the Namib Desert

December 17, 2019June 30, 2023

I would love to take a mature and nuanced perspective about my first week in Namibia, but to be…

Renting a Car in Namibia – The Things I Wish I had Known
Travel

Renting a Car in Namibia – The Things I Wish I had Known

December 14, 2019

Sesriem, Namibia. December 2019. PICTURED: The gravel roads of Namibia curving southward past dramatic cliffs just outside of the…


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US Forces Bomb Somalia for the 90th Time This Year: Has it Helped?

Andy Corbley November 11, 2025

“In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducted an airstrike targeting ISIS-Somalia on Nov.…

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Pentagon Doesn’t Know Who They’re Killing in Caribbean Boat Bombings

Andy Corbley October 31, 2025

Virtually all news outlets worldwide reporting on the Pentagon’s targeted killings of sailors in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific…

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Putin Proposes an Extension to the New START Nuclear Deal Through to 2027

Julien Torres October 4, 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that his government will adhere to the NEW START treaty with the US…

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