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Media rights group Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Wednesday called on the Botswana government to drop charges against a journalist accused of allegedly publishing falsehoods.
Top Botswana athlete Nijel Amos has been suspended from international competitions after testing positive for a banned substance, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said Wednesday.
Former Botswana president Festus Mogae will lead the Commonwealth observer group for Kenya’s upcoming general elections, the group announced late Tuesday.
A two-member team from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will next week undertake an official visit to Botswana to assess the situation regarding deprivation of liberty in the country.
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) has resolved to strengthen its industrial capacity to cushion its member states from the vagaries of global geo-politics and other shocks triggered by events such as the Russia-Ukraine war and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Former Botswana president Ian Khama has appealed to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other leaders to ban hunting trophy imports as part of a global campaign to save elephants and other animals from extinction.
The Botswana government and the De Beers Group have extended by a year an agreement under which a jointly owned diamond mine sells the bulk of its rough gems to the global giant.
The history of contemporary African politics is littered with some long-running disputes between sitting presidents and the leaders they replaced often democratically.
Air Botswana resumed direct flights on Friday between Gaborone and the capitals of neighbouring Zambia and Zimbabwe, the airline has announced.
The Botswana government has dismissed as false allegations by the country’s former president Ian Khama that he is being persecuted by the Gaborone administration and that his life is in danger.