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Botswana diamond sector wage disparity favours South Africans?

Botswana diamond sector wage disparity favours South Africans?

World over, particularly in Africa, diamond deposits have often been a source of bloody conflicts. However, Bostwana, a largely desert southern African nation endowed...
Cremation of dead espoused in Southern Africa

Cremation of dead espoused in Southern Africa

In most Africa cultures cremation is largely considered a taboo but due to increasing shortage of land it is now being touted as...
Botswana warns Libya amid suspected Zimbabwe mercenaries

Botswana warns Libya amid suspected Zimbabwe mercenaries

Botswana, a small Southern African nation has threatened to cut all diplomatic ties with strife-torn Libya while its neighbour, Zimbabwe, is suspected of having mercenaries...
Ivory Coast: Botswana moves to further isolate Gbagbo

Ivory Coast: Botswana moves to further isolate Gbagbo

Arrangements are underway for President Alassane Ouattarra's first official visit outside his country since he was recognized by the international community as winner of...
Botswana moves to tackle complex HIV situation

Botswana moves to tackle complex HIV situation

Botswana government has approved to reduce the age through which individuals would be deemed capable of giving informed consent for HIV testing as part of a...
Mobile clinics in Southern African region to fight HIV-AIDS

Mobile clinics in Southern African region to fight HIV-AIDS

Southern African region which carries the highest burden of the deadly HIV-AIDS in the world is planning to launch a string of mobile HIV/AIDS...
Botswana: President Ian Khama’s quest for a first lady

Botswana: President Ian Khama’s quest for a first lady

Botswana President Ian Khama's continued bachelor status is now increasingly worrying his countrymen and members of his own political party-Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). Party leaders...
SIM card registration: A chance to formalize an informal economy, digitally

SIM card registration: A chance to formalize an informal economy, digitally

A growing number of sub-Saharan African countries – South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and more recently, Ghana – now require that...
Swine/H1N1 Flu resurfaces in Southern Africa

Swine/H1N1 Flu resurfaces in Southern Africa

The southern African nation of Zimbabwe’s health infrastructure has come under the spotlight after a new outbreak of the deadly influenza H1N1, commonly known...
Ian Khama, from Mugabe critic to advocate?

Ian Khama, from Mugabe critic to advocate?

Botswana President Ian Khama, a strident critic of his southern counterpart Robert Mugabe, seems to be "slowly awakening to an African cause" as he begins touring...
Ethiopia, Ghana and ten African countries get medical education grants

Ethiopia, Ghana and ten African countries get medical education grants

The United States will invest $130 million over the next five years to transform African medical education and increase the number of health care...
AGOA: African business women at the forefront of trade

AGOA: African business women at the forefront of trade

Thirty-four African women entrepreneurs are participating in the 2010 U.S.–Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum — better known as the AGOA Forum —...
Botswana: Ex President faces embarrassment

Botswana: Ex President faces embarrassment

Former Botswana leader, Sir Ketumile Masire is on course of being embarrassed by a financial institution in his home land. A country he ruled...
Mixed reactions to Africa Cup of Nations draw

Mixed reactions to Africa Cup of Nations draw

Africa's prestigious football tournament's 2012 draw conducted last Saturday in DR Congo southern city of Lubumbashi has drawn interesting reactions. The 2012 Africa Cup of...
Botswana-Zimbabwe diplomatic relations take a damaging turn

Botswana-Zimbabwe diplomatic relations take a damaging turn

Diplomatic relations between Botswana and Zimbabwe have taken a damaging twist with the former recalling its defence and intelligence attaches from Zimbabwe. Botswana says...
Botswana-Zimbabwe diplomatic row over armed scouts imminent

Botswana-Zimbabwe diplomatic row over armed scouts imminent

A diplomatic row could erupt between Zimbabwe and neighboring Botswana after three armed officers from the Botswana Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP)...
Botswana: Radical Jamaican cleric trained Batswana to attack 2010 World Cup?

Botswana: Radical Jamaican cleric trained Batswana to attack 2010 World Cup?

A radical Jamaican cleric, Abdullah al-Faisal, who was recently deported from several African countries was operating a “suicide bomber camp” in Botswana, a publication...
Botswana: How AIDS almost killed An African Dream

Botswana: How AIDS almost killed An African Dream

One of the most stable democracies in the developing world, Botswana boasts the least corruption in Africa and a post-independence history of unprecedented economic...
Botswana prisoners tortured and forced to have homosexual sex

Botswana prisoners tortured and forced to have homosexual sex

Prison inmates revealed to the Gaborone Extension 2 Magistrate Court, this week, how the Gaborone Maximum Security Prison torture routines follow the notorious Guantanamo...
Botswana: A dynasty of good democracy

Botswana: A dynasty of good democracy

There is something fundamentally flawed with so-called ‘democracies’ that perpetuate political, monarchical or tribal dynasty. In Swaziland where The Mswatis rule by decree, in...
Botswana: Ian Khama’s party wins 45 seats

Botswana: Ian Khama’s party wins 45 seats

Botsana's ruling party- Botswana Democratic Party has won the elections extending President Ian Khama's rule over the world's largest diamond producer for another five...
Botswana: Khama set to win elections, Vows not to recognise Mugabe as Zimbabwe president

Botswana: Khama set to win elections, Vows not to recognise Mugabe as Zimbabwe president

Elections are underway in Botswana for parliamentary elections as President Ian Khama faces his first election challenge after taking over from his predecessor Festus...
Botswana elections: President accused of using government funds

Botswana elections: President accused of using government funds

Diamond rich Botswana heads for the polls on Friday. Incumbent President Ian Khama is expected to return to power. Reports say about 700,000 people...
South Africa: Zuma under fire for supporting AU stance on Omar Bashir

South Africa: Zuma under fire for supporting AU stance on Omar Bashir

Pressure is mounting on South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma to distance himself from the African Union (AU) decision to ignore the arrest...
Japan and China in Botswana follow French example in Niger?

Japan and China in Botswana follow French example in Niger?

One hundred and eleven Chinese enterprises now own exploration licenses to dig up Botswana for Uranium and other raw materials. China, which is competing...
Tanzania – Botswana: Breaking away from the vicious cycle of poverty, corruption and failed campaigns

Tanzania – Botswana: Breaking away from the vicious cycle of poverty, corruption and failed campaigns

Newly elected leaders of countries saddled with a reputation for corruption often loudly declare a war on corruption and set up a commission to...
Fifa WC 2010: Zimbabwe hotels lower rates, mock Botswana decision

Fifa WC 2010: Zimbabwe hotels lower rates, mock Botswana decision

After realizing the huge amounts they would have lost hotels in Zimbabwe have made a sharp u-turn and are now reconsidering their pricing after...
Swine flu in Southern Africa and a Zero preparedness

Swine flu in Southern Africa and a Zero preparedness

The potential international health disaster posed by the emergence of the swine flu has got Africa intellectualising its capacity to handle an eventual pandemic....
Human rights – A school curricula after Mugabe rule ?

Human rights – A school curricula after Mugabe rule ?

The London-based founder of the nonprofit group said human rights education will promote peace on the continent and help develop a new generation of...
China moves to rescue Botswana’s diamond industry

China moves to rescue Botswana’s diamond industry

Chinese ambassador to Botswana Ding Xiaowen has assured the country that China's stable market could be the saving grace for Botswana's under pressure...