A Helluva Place to Have a Baby! ; Their Previous Home Was a Paris Slum. Now Brad and Angelina (and Their Menacing Entourage) Have Set Up Camp in a Flyblown Shanty Town On the Edge of the African Desert, Ready for the Strangest Celebrity Birth Ever

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A SLIVER of land divides the scorched golden sands of the Namib Desert and the cold, grey waters of the South Atlantic. It is here that the resort of Long Beach stands straddling these two extremities.

Many first-time visitors believe they are witnessing a mirage, or that the desert heat has got to them. Shimmering in the desert heat before them is a vision of Milton Keynes. A hotchpotch of ghastly modern properties of every hue and shape, in defiant disunity with one another, it is like a magnified Legoland.

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A Helluva Place to Have a Baby! ; Their Previous Home Was a Paris Slum. Now Brad and Angelina (and Their Menacing Entourage) Have Set Up Camp in a Flyblown Shanty Town On the Edge of the African Desert, Ready for the Strangest Celebrity Birth Ever

This week, a young man with a Mohawk hairdo could be seen wandering out onto the balcony of one such house. Wearing a skin- tight, black vest and matching thigh-hugging shorts, he watched as a beautiful, heavily-pregnant young woman bounded into the garden clutching a young girl to her breast. She ran to the shade of an awning with a little boy - sporting a Mohawk to match the man's - by her side.

Here, thousands of miles from what most of their fellow A-list stars would call civilisation, are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, currently Hollywood's hottest couple. One wonders whether it is all a ...

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