Cunene
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The South Africans are anxious to avoid a battle around the $300 million Cunene complex, in which they have heavily invested.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are perhaps 1,000 regular South African soldiers near the fighting fronts and 2,000 to 3,000 further back, based at S� da Bandeira or near the Cunene River.
From Time Magazine Archive
But barring a direct confrontation of the M.P.L.A. and its battle-hardened Cubans with some 5,000 South African regulars dug in around the Cunene River hydroelectric complex just inside Angola, large-scale fighting appeared to be over.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still others joined a convoy of trucks that crossed the Cunene River and headed along the scorched Namib coastline, known locally as the Coast of Loneliness.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the west side the Bushmen are still heard of as far north as the Cunene, and in the interior beyond Lake Ngami nearly to the right bank of the Zambesi.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
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