Botswana police say they are targeting poachers, not Bushmen, amid claims of intimidation from a Basarwa settlement in the Kgalagadi Game Reserve.
Botswana President Ian Khama has publicly acknowledged for the first time that his ruling Botswana Democratic Party is at war with itself.
Four MPs have broken away from Botswana’s ruling party to launch the Botswana Movement for Democracy which could radically change political landscape.
Ten beauty contestants dressed in evening gowns and traditional dresses took to the catwalk to celebrate living positively with HIV in Botswana.
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/ 18 December 2009
If you don’t have something nice to say about the president of Botswana, it’s best not to say anything at all, reports <i>Sello Motseta</i>
The Law Society of Botswana is calling on President Ian Khama to give his assurance that he does not support torture or extra-judicial killings.
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/ 23 January 2009
Botswana says reporters have nothing to fear from a new media law, but a journalism advocate calls it repressive and the official defence misleading.
Journalists in Botswana are up in arms over the draft Media Practitioners Bill. Media bodies say the government seeks to impose itself on the media.
Sello Motseta reports on the new opera house in Gaborone, a tribute to Alexander McCall Smith’s famous Mma Ramotswe.
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/ 17 January 2008
Health authorities on Wednesday reported the first known cases of virtually untreatable tuberculosis in Botswana. The Health Ministry said there were two cases of so-called extremely drug resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, as well as 100 cases of the slightly more manageable multidrug-resistant TB, or MDR-TB.