Botswana
Republic of Botswana
CAPITAL: Gaborone
FLAG: The flag of Botswana consists of five horizontal stripes. The top and bottom stripes are light blue and wider than the middle stripe, which is bla...
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Botswana
Botswana is a nation of 1.5 million people occupying just over 600,000 square kilometers (231,600 square miles) in southern Africa, surrounded by South Africa, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, and Zi...
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Botswana
POPULATION 1,591,232AFRICAN INDIGENOUS BELIEFS, 65 percentCHRISTIAN 34.18 percentOTHER 0.82 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Republic of Botswana is a semiarid, sparsely populat...
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Area: 582,356 sq km (224,848 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 1,760,000Capital:
Gaborone
Head of state and government:
President
Festus
Mogae
As the 40th anniversary of
Botswana
's independence&#...
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Botswana welcomed a crew making a film of a popular series of detective novels set in this southern African country, with officials saying the movie would generate good publicity for Africa.The fil...
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Botswana welcomed a crew making a film of a popular series of detective novels set in this southern African country, with officials saying the movie would generate good publicity for Africa.The fil...
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Botswana's government Thursday accepted a court order to allow the Bushmen, the nation's last hunter-gatherers, to live on their ancestral lands. But at the same time, officials imposed tough condi...
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Health authorities on Wednesday reported the first known cases of virtually untreatable tuberculosis in Botswana, following fears that the highly contagious strain has spread beyond neighboring Sou...
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Botswana's High Court ruled Wednesday that the country's Bushmen are entitled to live and hunt on their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, a decision hailed as a victory for indi...
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Johannesburg (dpa) - The government of Botswana has set down
conditions for travel to the country by a UN human-rights spokesman
in what critics say is part of a concerted c...
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Harare (dpa) - Authorities in South Africa and Botswana deported
more than 140,000 Zimbabweans in 2006, a Herald newspaper report
Friday quoted police records as saying.
...
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Johannesburg (dpa) - In a move slammed as an attempt to muzzle
critics in a country lauded as a paragon of democracy, Botswana has
marked out a group of 17 foreign journalis...
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Lobatse, Botswana/Johannesburg (dpa) - The government of Botswana
on Monday said it would not appeal a court ruling giving the
indigenous San or Kalahari bushmen the right t...
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