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Topography, soils and vegetation : O. Bubenzer, A. Bolten, M. Ritter, Scale-specific geomorphometry of arid regions : Examples from the Eastern Sahara ; F. Alaily, Soil patterns and land use potential in the central Eastern Sahara, southwestern Egypte ; G. Menz, J. Richters, T. Welle, Assessing impacts of global change on regional and local scales by means of remote sensing : Case studies from northern Namibia / Game, livestock and mobility : A. Gautier, Animal domestication in North Africa ; N. Pöllath, History hidden in bones : Holocene environmental change in northwestern Sudan ; H. Riemer, When hunters started herding : Pastro-foragers and the complexity of Holoccene economic change in the Western Desert of Egypt ; B. Eichhorn, R. Vogelsang, A pristine landscape ? Archaeological and archaeobotanical research in the Skeleton Coast Park, northwestern Namibia / Violence, conflict and identities : K. A. Mkutu, New factors in pastoral conflict in the North Rift of northeastern Africa ; M. Österle, Armed economies, militarised identities, excessive violence : Automatic rifles and the transformation of nomadic pastoralism in northwestern Kenya ; L. Förster, Between Waterberg and Ohamakari : Namibian landscapes of memory ; M. Schnegg, Battling borderlands : Causes and consequences of an early German colonial war in Namibia : U. Dieckmann, The predicament of ethnicity : Evidence from the Haillom struggle, Namibia ; S. Berzborn, Identity politics in the Richtersveld Land Claim, South Africa / State, land and crisis : J. C. Moreno Garcia, The state and the organisation of the rural landscape in 3rd millenium BC pharaonic Egypt ; C. Jung, Rain in ancient Egypt : A linguistic approach ; M. Taylor, Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) and pastoral development in Botswana : Implications for San land rights ; B. Cousins, A. Claassens, Communal tenue systems in South Africa : Past, present and future ; G. Chatzoudis, The history of the name « Namibia » ; J. Pauli, M. Schnegg, « Blood tests with the eyes » : Negotiating conjugal relations during HIV/AIDS crisis in rural Namibia ; H. Siiskonen, The Namibian mainline churches and HIV/AIDS.