About 360km from Windhoek, Swakopmund feels like a German Baltic beach resort -- apart from the palm trees and desert sand.

BBC: A long road trip along Namibia��s coast

When the members of the G8 convene for their June 6 summit at Heiligendamm, a venerable German resort on the Baltic, they first will have to transit an 8-mile fence topped with razor wire.

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