BOTSWANA’S active involvement in the internal affairs of Zimbabwe after the disputed elections of 2008, helped avert a potential civil war in the country, a recent research has revealed. The research, ...

I am not a victim, I am a survivor. The voice of Molefe (not her real name) echoes in my mind as I recall her narrating her story at Okavango River Lodge. The scenario that surrounded the campus, deep ...

The Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreaks of 2002 and 2003 nearly crippled the beef industry in Botswana. General manager of Botswana Meat Commission's (BMC) Francistown abattoir, Thabani Machacha, ...

SEROWE, Botswana Sixty-four blue plastic chairs snake from the entrance to the exit of the new AIDS clinic at the hospital in this town and, on this Friday in May, each one was filled. There was an ...

It looks like a typical rural idyll, the village of Otse. The dirt track takes you past houses with neatly swept front yards, children play with toys made of wire and tin cans, girls walk down the ...

Botswana has criticised a weekend newspaper report that it was ”at the centre of war talk as the Zimbabwean crisis escalates”. The Defence Ministry issued a statement on Monday reacting to a story ...

Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Paweł Jabłoński is visiting Botswana this week, with the Ukraine war and economic cooperation top of the agenda. Paweł Jabłoński.PAP/Wojtek Jargiło. It will be the first ...

GABORONE, BOTSWANA - Catherine had already buried two sisters because of AIDS when she was diagnosed with the dreaded disease. After doctors broke the news, she stopped eating. “I thought that was the ...