Former president Thabo Mbeki was the African Union’s chief mediator in the conflict in Sudan that led to the creation of South Sudan in 2011.
Voluntary male circumcision has made huge strides in reducing the rate of HIV infections.
Three Botswana presidents all appear to have turned political power into personal advantage.
Former Botswana president Festus Mogae has admitted that while in office he put his political career ahead of gay rights.
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/ 16 November 2008
Last month the second Mo Ibrahim award went to ex-Botswanan president Festus Mogae. Robert Watkinson quizzed Ibrahim on the prize.
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/ 20 October 2008
Botswana’s former president Festus Mogae won the -million Mo Ibrahim Prize for African leadership on Monday.
Signs that work on preventing the spread of HIV is bearing fruit were highlighted recently by UNAids’s two-yearly report on the state of the epidemic.
The new president of Botswana pledged on Tuesday that there would be no radical change in policy as he took the oath of office at a ceremony in Gaborone. A former army chief whose father was the country’s first post-independence president, Seretse Khama Ian Khama promised to uphold democracy for which his country has been known since independence.
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/ 15 November 2007
Japan will launch satellite searches for rare metals with Botswana and South Africa in a global race to secure industrial resources, a minister said in an interview published on Thursday. Japan has a strong interest in platinum and other rare metals and minerals abundant in Africa.
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/ 13 October 2007
Botswana President Festus Mogae hosted his counterparts from South Africa and Namibia at the opening on Friday of a new border crossing to allow for easier movement between the three countries. The crossing is situated in a desert area where the borders of Botswana, South Africa and Namibia meet.