GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The country of diamonds now has a gold. The people of Botswana were given the afternoon off work Friday through a presidential decree so they could celebrate its first gold ...

GABORONE, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- Botswana hosted an event Wednesday featuring speeches and Chinese talent show to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties with China. The ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The country of diamonds now has a gold. The people of Botswana have been given the afternoon off work Friday through a presidential decree so that they could celebrate the ...

JOHANNESBURG -- After the NGO he was working at folded, Tendekayi Katsiga landed himself a good job at Debswana, the huge diamond company formed as a partnership between Botswana and DeBeers. It ...

GABORONE, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Duma Boko, president of Botswana, on Tuesday encouraged people to embrace unity and cooperation to safeguard and foster peace and harmony in the world. Boko made the ...

Gaborone, Botswana — ZIMBABWE continues to pursue dialogue with Botswana to ensure the seamless movement of people from both countries, including securing a special dispensation for locals working in ...

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The electoral defeat delivered to the Botswana Democratic Party led by Mokgweetsi Masisi was met with incredulity in neighbouring states. Not many expected the party that had run the country ...

The San are hunter-gatherers who were evicted from their ancestral land in the Kalahari, where there are diamond deposits. They have lived in southern Africa for tens of thousands of years but are ...

GABORONE, April 12 (Reuters) - Botswana is investigating the deaths of two among thousands of people who had been given doses of AstraZeneca's (AZN.L), opens new tab COVID-19 vaccine to see if there ...

A United Nations human rights expert on Friday urged Botswana's government to grant constitutional recognition and stronger protections to indigenous communities, citing longstanding discrimination ...