If you blinked, you probably missed press coverage of the elections in Namibia. The Wall Street Journal did carry 1" to 2" updates on the situation and a couple of longer articles. I even found short summaries in my local paper in mid-November.

The press was quick to report that the elections were over and the Communist-backed SW APO did not get the two-thirds majority it needed to write the constitution for independent Namibia. Having reported that, interest in Namibia was quickly replaced by interest in other parts of the world - Europe, Russia, Romania.
But Namibia has not ceased to exist because the elections are over. And the threat of Communism has not dissipated because SW APO did not win the election with a two-thirds majority.