The Cunene River a Cross-Border Resource: Reflections on its use in South Angola (Angola-Namibia) and the Role of SADC

Sónia Cristina Cardoso dos Santos Silva
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Abstract

With this study, we intend to demonstrate that the management of water resources in the south of Angola, between the Republics of Angola and Namibia, is carried out mainly at the state level. Even the 1888 agreement between the Portuguese and Germans, the basis for the agreement to delimit the southern border of Angola between the Portuguese and South Africans (22 June 1926), was related to the need to manage water resources. The use of the waters of the cross-border Cunene river, with a length of more than a thousand kilometers, of which around 70% in Angolan territory and the remainder on the border line with the Republic of Namibia, its diversion to the Etocha lagoon, was the condition unique way to alleviate aridity in Damaralândia, a sine quo non condition for the implementation of this delimitation. These agreements remain in force to this day, complemented by initiatives after independence, with a view to making better use of the Calueque and Ruacaná dams, on the Cunene river, aiming to improve the lives of the populations of both countries, both in terms of water supply and of electrical energy.

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Sónia Cristina Cardoso dos Santos Silva. 2026. \u201cThe Cunene River a Cross-Border Resource: Reflections on its use in South Angola (Angola-Namibia) and the Role of SADC\u201d. Global Journal of Human-Social Science - B: Geography, Environmental Science & Disaster Management GJHSS-B Volume 23 (GJHSS Volume 23 Issue B6).

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