Botswana

The Botswana Congress Party has said it is concerned about the escalation of cases of gender-based violence, many with fatal consequences

The country will not back down from demands for a bigger share of rough diamonds from its joint venture with De Beers, President Mokgweetsi Masisi said, raising the stakes as talks on a new sales deal appear to be stalled

President Masisi has reaffirmed his Government's commitment to successfully host the 15th U.S.-Africa Business Summit (USABS) in Botswana in July

A major power outage occurred early Monday; according to a statement from the Botswana Power Corporation, which says that "grid disturbance" has shut down both Morupule A and B power plants that supply almost all of the country's electricity

Forbes Summit under-30 delegate, South African citizen Bhekisisa Kunene has accused the Botswana Police Service of brutality after he was arrested and jailed

The Department of Wildlife and National Parks is investigating four rhinos, two found dead and two injured, with horns still intact at the Khama Rhino Sanctuary

Exiled former President Ian Khama could be a candidate to watch in the country's next general election, saying his successor has become a threat to democracy

University of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Botswana recently inaugurated an agri-voltaic project in Gaborone that consists of a 1 megawatt solar power plant that provides energy to the university during the day

The government of Botswana has launched its national health services digitisation project with the hashtag "Go Digital Health"

The overall pass rate for the Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education 2022 results, Grade C or better in six syllabuses, is 95,46%, a minor decline of 1,63 % from 97,09% of year 2021

To promote indigenous knowledge, Botswana Innovation Fund calls on innovators or communities that would like to develop Indigenous Knowledge-(IK) based products and services to make their submissions

Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi said the country could sever trade ties with South African diamond giant De Beers if talks to renegotiate sales agreements prove unfavourable to the country's government

Sales of diamonds from Botswana reached record levels last year: the reason is the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, which caused Western buyers to flee Russian diamond sellers, at the same time as demand for diamond jewellery increased