Namibia

The issues
The nations south of the DRC/Zaire/Belgian Congo were in big trouble. Many wars and civil wars over the years due to the ongoing problems relating to the region's colonial legacy. The main problem was about the issues of communism, apartheid, the fall of the Portuguese empire, Rhodesia under Sir Ian Smith and the fate of White colonial ex-pats\business interests.

As a whole, the Portuguese Empire was hated by Africans for it's homicidal attitude. The Pijiguiti Massacre in 1959 saw Portuguese soldiers opened fire on protesting Bissau dockworkers, killing 50.

The anti-French 1947-48 Malagasy Uprising was bloodily crushed in 1948.

Namibia
The country had been bloodily annexed out of tribaly held desert and brush land in 1884 and then by South Africa in 1914, but the local tribes men did not like it and resisted. The British Empire took Walvis Bay and the Penguin Islands in a more positive way during 1878.

The UN started demanding that S. Africa (the RSA) was give it independence after a summit in 1973 due to Apartheid steady spreading to the territory in the early to mid 1960s.

The Namibian War of Independence of 26 August 1966 to 21 March 1990, was a separatist guerrilla war which the nationalist South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) along with others against the racist apartheid colonial government of South Africa. The Namibian War of Independence and The South African Border War can be seen as part of a bigger regional conflict.

Agriculture, herding, tourism and the mining industry; including mining for gem diamonds, uranium, gold, silver and base metals; are the basis of Namibia's economy. Both diamonds and gold were mined as far back as the 1880s by the Germans.

Cold War politics had noticed both mineral resources, agriculture and geopolitical interests in southern Africa.

Namibia became independent from South Africa in 1990, with the exception of Walvis Bay and the Penguin Islands, which remained under South African control until being given to Namibia in 1994.

Also see

 * 1) Egypt
 * 2) Angola
 * 3) Rhodesia
 * 4) Namibia
 * 5) Mozambique
 * 6) West Africa
 * 7) North Africa
 * 8) Horn of Africa
 * 9) Bophuthatswana
 * 10) Koevoet units
 * 11) South Africa
 * 12) 1947-48 Malagasy Uprising
 * 13) Portuguese Colonial War
 * 14) Minerals and fuel in central Africa
 * 15) Arbitrary colonial borders divided the tribes
 * 16) United Nations Security Council Resolution 282
 * 17) United Nations Security Council Resolution 418
 * 18) United Nations Security Council Resolution 591
 * 19) United Nations Security Council Resolution 919
 * 20) United Nations Security Council Resolution 216
 * 21) United Nations Security Council Resolution 202
 * 22) United Nations Security Council Resolution 300
 * 23) United Nations Security Council Resolution 218
 * 24) United Nations Security Council Resolution 275
 * 25) United Nations Security Council Resolution 204
 * 26) United Nations Security Council Resolution 178
 * 27) United Nations Security Council Resolution 289
 * 28) United Nations Security Council Resolution 275

Links

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_Civil_War
 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13037271
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angolan_Civil_War
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambican_Civil_War
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Border_War
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namibian_War_of_Independence
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesian_Bush_War
 * http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/678102c2-59e0-11e4-9787-00144feab7de.html#axzz3SnS60sWm
 * http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Bush-Rhodesia-Extraordinary-Reconnaissance/dp/1581606141
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesia
 * 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana
 * 2) http://www.generalknowledgefacts.com/2013/09/bechuanaland-was-former-name-of-botswana.html
 * 3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bophuthatswana
 * 4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechuanaland_Protectorate