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Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana (), is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. The citizens are properly referred to as "Batswana" (singular: Motswana), but many English-language sources use "Botswanan".
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Police in Botswana say they are cracking down on poaching in a game reserve, but a rights group says the move is an attempt to intimidate Bushmen who went to court to secure their right to live in the area.
Police spokesman Christopher Mbulawa, responding by e-mail over the weekend to questions from The Associated Press, said police established special camps across the country as a crime-prevention strategy. He said a police camp near a settlement of Bushmen, also known as the Basarwa, was set up in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve "to deal with the escalating poaching in the area."In a statement last week, Survival International's Director Stephen Corry called the camp an "attempt to intimidate and undermine the human rights the Bushmen battled to save."In 2002, the government evicted Bushmen from their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. The Bushmen took the government to court and in 2006 won the right to return to desert-like homelands. Hundreds returned, only to ...An appeals court in Botswana ruled Thursday that indigenous dwellers in one of the driest parts of the world can now drill wells for water, overturning an earlier de...
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — A court in Botswana ruled Wednesday that indigenous dwellers in one of the driest parts of the world will not be allowed to drill wells for...
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Britain's Prince Harry has celebrated his grandmother's birthday in Botswana at the start of a southern African tour he will make with his ...
Botswana's government has told 1,478 civil servants considered essential workers they will be fired for taking part in a nationwide strike that has dragged on for mo...
Police in Botswana fired tear gas on rioting students angry over a teachers' strike.Teachers' union secretary Justin Hunyepa says the students rioted in Molepolole, ...
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Britain's royal brothers were a bit nervous when game wardens asked them to hold an 8.5 foot (2.6 meter) African rock python.The snake was ...
A global health fund besieged by criticism after finding its grant money was being used corruptly has turned to an ex-president of Botswana and a former high-ranking...
GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Diamond-rich Botswana is often lauded as a beacon of hope on a continent plagued by violence and poverty, yet some here say democracy is er...
Botswana's independent electoral commission says the country's long-governing party has once again swept parliamentary elections.The commission announced Sunday that...
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Spain's 74-year-old king came under scathing criticism Sunday for going on an expensive elephant hunting trip in Botswana amid the nation's deep financial woes.Makin...
Spain's king left a Madrid hospital Friday after undergoing a second operation to fix a hip he broke two weeks ago during a much-criticized elephant hunting trip to ...
Australia and South Africa will share hosting of a giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes and intended to help scientists figure out the make-...
Spain's King Juan Carlos has successfully undergone hip replacement surgery after tripping on stairs and fracturing bones around the joint while on an elephant hunti...
With the prevalence of technology, it can sometimes be hard to vacation on vacation. Plenty of hooked-up travelers will check work e-mail using the hotel Wi-Fi, or u...
On the great continent of Africa, you can hear a lion's roar echo throughout the savanna or admire majestic grasslands atop a mountain that few mortals would dare cl...
MAUN, Botswana -- Rescuers ferried buckets of water from a swamp to douse a raging fire when a light aircraft carrying 12 people on a luxury safari crashed shortly a...
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A second light aircraft crashed on takeoff Wednesday in Botswana's Okavango Delta but all six people onboard survived unscathed, the air charter company said.Another...
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