Topic: Botswana
For Zimbabwe's deportees, shame at empty-handed return
AFP Global Edition
<div><p>Onias was 16 years old when he ran away from his home in rural Zimbabwe. Schools were shuttered and his village had run out of food. But after his mother died, leaving him an orphan, he set out on his own.</p> ...
Asia demand for ivory, sharks' fins set for scrutiny
AFP Global Edition
<div><p>Proposals to restrict or ban international trade in those three products are due to be studied when the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) holds its next triennial meeting in Qatar next year.</p><p>Monaco has tabled ...
Botswana's Ian Khama sworn in as president
AFP Global Edition
<div><p>Ian Khama was sworn-in Tuesday as Botswana?s fourth democratically elected president, pledging to diversify the country's diamond-dependent economy.</p><p>"We have long recognised that the diversification of the economy, both within the minerals sector and beyond, is ...
Botswana mulls life after diamonds
AFP Global Edition
<div><p>Botswana has received a harsh wake-up call as the global economic crisis sees diamond revenues plummet, giving a stark view of what lies in store when the country's economic mainstay runs out.</p><p>The Botswanan government has long ...
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