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Windhoek (AFP) - A US hunter who paid $350,000 to kill a black rhinoceros in Namibia successfully shot the animal on Monday, saying that his actions would help protect the critically-endangered species. Corey Knowlton, from Texas, downed the rhino with a high-powered rifle after a three-day hunt through the bush with government officials on hand to ensure he killed the correct animal. Knowlton, 36, won the right to shoot the rhino at an auction in Dallas in early 2014 -- attracting fierce criticism from many conservationists and even some death threats. He took a CNN camera crew on the hunt...

Namibian vineyard defies odds to produce wine By Sebastien Berger in Neuras Last Updated: 1:52am BST 08/10/2007 If only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun, a winegrower might have to be British-born to plant a vineyard on the edge of the Namibian desert. A few miles from where the wind-whipped sands of the Namib stretch out to the Tsaris mountains lies probably the world's driest winery. As well as sunshine — available beyond abundance – grapes need water, but Neuras averages around 3in of rain a year, sometimes less than an inch. Even so Allan Walkden-Davis,...

'Arrogant Namibian farmers, you're next' August 27 2002 at 01:29PM Windhoek - Namibian President Sam Nujoma has warned "arrogant white farmers" that they had better comply with the southwest African nation's land distribution programme, The Namibian newspaper reported on Tuesday. It said Nujoma made the warning this week at a congress of his ruling Southwest Africa People's Organisation (Swapo), at which he said the government already planned to take over 192 farms owned by white foreigners who do not use the land. "The landless majority of our citizens are growing impatient by the day," Nujoma was quoted as saying. "If...