In Botswana, where a third of the population has Aids, one pioneering clinic has shown that it is not too late for a ravaged continent to fight back and survive the epidemic
A journalist has filed assault charges against Zimbabwe’s ambassador to Botswana who he says attacked him over an article he wrote, police said on Thursday.
Insistence by donor governments on good governance as a precondition for aid often masked an unwillingness to contribute, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said on Thursday.
Botswana is scheduled to begin tests on an Aids vaccine to find out if it is safe when given to healthy adults, officials said on Monday.
The United States is ”thrilled” by the latest initiative by South Africa, Malawi and Nigeria to resolve the political standoff in Zimbabwe, US assistant secretary for African Affairs William Kansteiner III said on Thursday.
Five southern African airlines have expressed interest in taking part in the privatisation of Air Botswana, a government official said on Monday.
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/ 13 February 2003
Botswana President Festus Mogae has been briefed on the state of the world diamond market by De Beers’ managing director Gary Ralfe and executives of De Beer’s Diamond Trading Company.
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/ 30 January 2003
Illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe have become a major problem in neighbouring Botswana, where detention centres are filled to capacity and about 1 600 Zimbabweans are repatriated every month, officials said on Thursday.
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/ 22 January 2003
Southern African Development Community chief executive Prega Ramsamy on Tuesday renewed calls for the regional organisation to speed up the implementation of a free trade area and assimilate it into a customs union.
Famine in southern Africa will top the agenda of a ministerial meeting of the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) to be held in Gaborone on Friday and Saturday.
Many inmates in Botswana’s overcrowded prisons were denied medical treatment and had no access to clean water, forcing them to drink from toilets, according to a newspaper report.
Southern African countries plan to step up their campaign to win international support for allowing some sales of raw ivory, despite a ban aimed at protecting endangered elephants.
The Botswana Agricultural Union (BAU) on Wednesday urged Zimbabwean farmers who have been ordered off their land by President Robert Mugabe to come to neighbouring Botswana.