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Tag: Botswana

April 29, 2021

Anti-Rape Campaigner in Botswana Wants More...

Botswana’s lawmakers recently formed a committee to solve the issue and intend to create a sex offenders register, despite the country’s high and rising rate of rape cases

July 31, 2020

Landlocked Botswana’s Truck Drivers Face COVID-19 Dilemma

Botswana’s truck drivers, who deliver the majority of the landlocked country’s goods from COVID-hit South Africa, are also responsible for 80 percent of the country’s reported COVID-19 cases. Health authorities started testing all truckers for the virus in May, delaying them at the border for days at a time. Mqondisi Dube reports on their plight from Gaborone

February 7, 2020

Botswana’s ‘Edible Diamonds’ Decline with Drought,...

A prolonged dry spell in Southern Africa has caused a decline in mopane worms, a key source of income and food for rural communities in Botswana. Experts say over-harvesting of the protein-rich caterpillars has also affected breeding

November 7, 2019

Botswana’s Historians, Archaeologists Cautious on Study...

A study in the journal Nature tracing the origins of modern human life to Botswana has drawn mixed views from experts in the Southern African nation. Some archaeologists question the study’s findings

August 5, 2019

Botswana’s “Test and Treat’ HIV Strategy...

A “test and treat” HIV program is getting results in Botswana after the southern African country recorded a decline in cases of the virus among participating communities. But the rate of the deadly virus remains among the highest in the world, according to a recent study by the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership

June 12, 2019

Botswana De-Criminalized Homosexuality

Campaigners for same sex relationships in court in Gaborone, Botswana, where a judge decriminalized homosexuality.Some of the people who attended a court case in Gaborone, Botswana, where the court decriminalized same sex relationships.Happy campaiger

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