Brangelina to have Baby in Namibia

Speculation has been swirling around the possibility of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie giving their baby a Namibian name, as well as having Jolie give birth to the child in the South African country.

Apparently, Samuel Sheefeni Nuuyoma, the governor of the Namibian province where Pitt and Jolie are staying, has confirmed that the couple will in fact have the child in Namibia and choose a Nambian name. In a recent article in People Magazine, the Namibian government have made every effort to keep the couple, along with Jolie's two children Maddox and Zahara, comfortable and free of the press by not allowing media to enter the country without valid work permits. Nuuyoma revealed that he wanted his guests to feel at home and free, plus added, " Namibia is a country where everyone has the right to freedom of movement, and they must not feel inhibited when they visit this beautiful country of ours."

In a related article in The New York Daily News, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are said to have spent much of the last two weeks at Burning Shore Lodge in Langstrand, where the security staff have sectioned off the garden to keep would-be paparazzi away. The government has also given the A-list movie couple's beefy bodyguards free reign of the area.

30 year old Angelina Jolie, star of such movies as Mr. And Mrs. Smith, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Alexander, has been in the public eye quite frequently as of late, following her pairing up with Brad Pitt after his divorce from Jennifer Aniston. With their first child together on the way, Brad Pitt, 42, has been the star of such hits as Fight Club, Troy, Ocean's Twelve, and is set to star in the up-coming movie, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Angelina Jolie is the daughter of actor Jon Voight, who has starred in such hit films as Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, Anaconda, Pope John Paul II, and most recently Disney's Glory Road, about legendary Texas Western basketball coach Don Haskins, where Voight played controversial Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp.

Angelina Jolie, the Academy Award winning actress who has acted in movies such as Girl, Interrupted, has recently adopted two boys. On March 10th, 2002, Angelina adopted her first child, whose legal name now is Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt, when he was 7 months old. Jolie met the child in a Cambodian orphanage while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Then, on July 5th, 2005, People Magazine reported that Angelina Jolie was attempting to adopt an Ethiopian child that had been orphaned, as her mother had died from AIDS. After a woman claiming to be the baby's mother was proven not to be, Jolie eventually gained custody of Zahara Marley Jolie. On January 19th, 2006, both of Angelina Jolie's babies were also adopted by Brad Pitt, giving the children the surname Jolie-Pitt.

Angelina Jolie's adoption of children seems to have sparked some popularity for adoption. Recently, pop singer Jessica Simpson has stated that, based on Angelina's successful adoptions, she, too, would like to adopt a child (See Jessica Simpson Considers Adoption).

[Additional Sources: People, New York Daily News]

- Mark Paridy