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...Swakopmund Museum Founded in 1951, this privately run facility, swakopmund-museum.de, has imaginative collections and photographs documenting Namibia's colonial history and indigenous peoples. The sections devoted to the latter are exceptional, reflecting a relatively recent acknowledgement of the importance of ethnic groups such as the San, Nama and Herero...
...small Namibian city of Swakopmund - known as Swakop to the locals - has a discernible Germanic flavor and design, dating back to Namibia's colonial days as German Southwest Africa. Today, the trappings of a beach resort are mixed in with that Old World charm. Imagine Bavaria by the sea. There's even an Oktoberfest...
...city is different from the rest of the country in other ways, not least in its temperate climate, which offers respite from the heat of the surrounding Namib Desert. And as Namibia has grown in stature as a safari destination, so Swakopmund, relatively undeveloped and off the beaten track until the 1970s, has quietly blossomed. Hollywood has even made an appearance: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's daughter Shiloh was born there in 2006, and the city is a location for the current U.S. remake of the 1960s British television series The Prisoner. Here are five of its main attractions...
When Michael P. Silvestri ’10 saw the difficulty women and children in third-world countries like Namibia had transporting and purifying water with existing resources, he and a team of students developed a new container that was both easy to transport and economically feasible...
...Then in mid-month came reports that Nuctech, a company whose CEO was until last year the President's son Hu Haifeng, is the focus of a corruption investigation in Namibia. Investigators in the African nation have reportedly requested that the 38-year-old Hu testify as a witness (though not as a suspect) in a probe into how a lucrative government contract was won by Nuctech, a maker of security-screening devices used in airports and seaports. News of the investigation is so sensitive in China that tight controls imposed on the Internet have been tightened even further. Chinese...