Onawa, Namibia

Onawa is a small settlement in the north of Namibia in the Omusati Region near the border with Angola. Its neighboring villages are Olukekete, Oluvango, Ouhwaala, and Oshiputu.

Economy

This village can support very few livestock like cattle, goats, sheep and donkeys. This is due to its limited grazing and browsing capacity. The reason capacity is limited is the increasing population, the need for houses and land reclamation. Residents of this village rely on cultivated crops for their survival, mainly mahangu. Beans, maize, sorghum, watermelon and nuts are also grown.

Environment

Onawa is situated within a forested area with Mopane as the dominating tree. Mopane trees are used to construct houses and fencing. These trees are also used to create storage receptacles such as baskets. Many other trees, such as Camelthorn, Makalani palms. Acacias, are present.

Weather

Normally the village is very hot during the months of end-August to December and becomes cold in the months of April to July

Namibia

Coordinates: 22°S 17°E / 22°S 17°E / -22; 17

Namibia (/nəˈmɪbiə/, /næˈ-/), officially the Republic of Namibia (German:  Republik Namibia ; Afrikaans: Republiek van Namibië), and formerly German South-West Africa and then South West Africa, is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres of the Zambezi River (essentially a small bulge in Botswana to achieve a Botswana/Zambia micro-border) separates them at their closest points. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations.

The dry lands of Namibia were inhabited since early times by San, Damara, and Namaqua, and since about the 14th century AD by immigrating Bantu who came with the Bantu expansion. Most of the territory became a German Imperial protectorate in 1884 and remained a German colony until the end of World War I. In 1920, the League of Nations mandated the country to South Africa, which imposed its laws and, from 1948, its apartheid policy. The port of Walvis Bay and the offshore Penguin Islands had been annexed by the Cape Colony under the British crown by 1878 and had become an integral part of the new Union of South Africa at its creation in 1910.

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