Botswana–Namibia relations
{'<entity_0>': 'Botswana–Namibia relations', '<entity_1>': 'Botswana', '<entity_2>': 'Namibia'}
[['Botswana–Namibia relations', 'country', 'Namibia'], ['Botswana–Namibia relations', 'country', 'Botswana']]
<entity_0> refers to the current and historical relationship between <entity_1> and <entity_2>. Both <entity_1> and <entity_2> are members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which has its headquarters in Gaborone, <entity_1>. As of 2008 there was no treaty covering the long border between <entity_1> and <entity_2>. In 1994, <entity_1>, <entity_2> and Angola agreed to establish the Okavango River Basin Commission, with a view to establishing a treaty governing joint use of the water resources, but progress towards finalizing the treaty has been slow. In 2004, <entity_1> and <entity_2> were cosignatories along with other states of the Zambezi river basin of an agreement establishing the Zambezi Watercourse Commission to manage the riparian resources of the Zambezi. In 2002 the <entity_2> and <entity_1> Power Corporations signed an agreement to supply electricity to the Ghanzi and De Hoek areas in <entity_1> and <entity_2> respectively. <entity_2> and <entity_1> have been considering collaboration on development of new fiber-optic communications to bypass South Africa, in an effort to reduce costs. In 2008, South Africa, <entity_1>, <entity_2> and Zimbabwe held a legal joint sale behind closed doors in <entity_2> of seven tons of ivory, earning more than US$1.18 million, to Chinese and Japanese bidders. In October 2008 <entity_2> approved the proposal by a private company to export coal from <entity_1> via a railway to be constructed to Namibian ports. <entity_1> and <entity_2> had a long-running dispute about ownership of the Kasikili / Sedudu island in the Chobe River, which forms part of the border between the two countries. The Okavango Delta in <entity_1> is an area famous internationally for its birds and wildlife and an important source of tourist revenue, but depends on the Okavango River which flows from Angola via <entity_2>. <entity_2> has been critical of <entity_1>'s "shoot to kill" policy against wildlife poachers.
['bilateral relation']