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BDF denies AFRICOM links to US-funded facility

Source: Mmegi Online, Nov 27 2012, 10:12am CST

The Botswana Defence Force (BDF) has denied that the training hall to be built at Thebephatshwa Airbase is linked to the US Africa Command (AFRICOM). The proposed facility is funded by the US whose plans to relocate AFRICOM headquarters from Stuttgart, ...

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Beyond upbeat about global tourism award

Source: Mmegi Online  |   May 22 2013, 10:47am CDT

Part of the credentials that scooped the company the award was the six white rhinos donation hailed by Botswana government as a huge boost to Botswana's limited rhino population. All the rhinos were sourced from t ...

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Etcetera II

Source: Mmegi Online  |   May 22 2013, 10:47am CDT

Molepolole would have made Florence Nightingale weep In its 14th May editorial, 'The 'Horror of Health Care in Botswana', Mmegi described the experience of a woman who in February gave birth in a corridor in the vast new ...

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25 weeks ago


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"AFRICOM does not have facilities in Botswana. The facility has been donated to the BDF by the US government. This is just one of the many such donations by the US government to the BDF"


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Botswana: Biodiversity and dragons come together

Source: Humanitarian News  |   May 22 2013, 6:02am CDT

With International Day for Biological Diversity on 22 May, a new biodiversity project highlights the importance of diversity and draws out tensions that arise when trying to put biodiversity at the centre of development policies. “Are you ...

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The vice-regal couple on tour in South Africa

Source: Globe and Mail  |   May 22 2013, 5:02am CDT

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World motorsport chief to visit Botswana

Source: TDNpost.com  |   May 22 2013, 3:15am CDT

Gaborone (Bostwana), May 22 (IANS) The president of the world motorsport governing body, Federation Internationale de I’ Automobile (FIA), Jean Todt is scheduled to visit Botswana in August, Botswana Motorsport Associat ...

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Botswana: Govt At War With Indigenous San People

Source: AllAfrica.com  |   May 21 2013, 10:34pm CDT

Despite court defeats and international condemnation, the government of Botswana is continuing its assault on the San by attempting to forcibly relocate another community from land they have occupied for d ...

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Botswana Only Highly Tolerant Country in Africa: Report

Source: The Epoch Times  |   May 21 2013, 1:37pm CDT

In an index of 142 countries that measures personal freedom, the only country in Africa that shows a high level of freedom and social tolerance is Botswana. Botswana’s place amid mostly middle- to lower-ranking nation ...

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Botho University to build campus in F/town

Source: Mmegi Online  |   May 21 2013, 11:26am CDT

FRANCISTOWN: Botho University plans to construct a multi-million campus in Botswana's second largest city. Botho vice-chancellor, Sheela Raja Ram, has said construction of the new campus at Molapo Estates ...

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BOMASE's Basiame elected to BDP women's wing committee

Source: Mmegi Online  |   May 21 2013, 11:26am CDT

SELEBI-PHIKWE: The Botswana Democratic Party's (BDP) Bobirwa, Mmadinare and Selebi-Phikwe (BOMASE) specially nominated councillor Florah Basiame was elected as an additional member of the committee by 217 delegates at the BDP women's wing congress h ...

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