Hungry UNITA soldiers and their families who have crossed into Namibia are being transported back across the border to quartering areas in southern Angola by the Namibian Defence Force (NDF), which has only a limited amount of food to spare the former rebels.

Namibia's fight to conserve its endangered Cheetah population has been boosted by support from internationally acclaimed conservationist, Kuki Gallman. The Italian-born poet, conservationist and founder of the Gallman Memorial Foundation (GMF) pledged botanical expertise to help protect the cheetah during a gala dinner and auction in Windhoek aimed at raising N$100 000 for the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF).

The harbour at Walvis Bay is experiencing its worst oil pollution in about five years. Fish meal factories have been pumping fish oil into the harbour since late last week, which has resulted in a huge oil slick which has spread into the ecologically sensitive lagoon area.

Solutions for desertification can no longer be postponed, says Hama Arba Diallo, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). Speaking at the opening in Windhoek of the African Regional Conference to review UNCCD, Diallo said the poor were both the victims and agents of environmental damage.

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