Namibia's civil war started in 1966 and lasted 22 years. In 1990, when Namibia at last gained independence from South Africa, it was one of the first countries in the world to write protection of ...

The stretch of coastline in southwest Africa is a strange and beautiful reminder that, in the end, we are powerless against nature and time. The C34 highway, along Namibia’s coast, is barely ...

The Skeleton Coast was to be its undoing,” wrote renowned travel author Oliver Smith in his Atlas of Abandoned Places. “Carrying munitions to Egypt in 1942, it hit a reef close to the present ...

The Skeleton Coast fringes the northern part of the Atlantic coast of Namibia, and also edges its way into southern Angola. It's one of the world's most inhospitable places, a hot, arid and remote ...