Zacklin, Ralph Keywords: South West Africa | Mots clefs: Sud-Ouest africain | ABSTRACT Ralph Zacklin proposes in this course the aspects of international law to provide an overview of the situation of Namibia. The author points out that Namibia, which is sparsely populated and has an inhospitable climate, would have been independent for a long time, if its subsoil were not so rich in diamonds, uranium, and other metals and if it did not have such a long coastline. In the first part of his course, the author …

Makonnen, Yilma Keywords: Africa | State succession | South West Africa | Mots clefs: Afrique | Succession d états | Sud-Ouest africain | ABSTRACT Yilma Makonnen, from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, builds his course on selected issues of State succession in Africa into three main chapters. The first concerns general problems of State succession, with particular emphasis on issues related to the definition, types of State succession and theories of State succession. The autho…