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GABORONE, Botswana – People in Botswana are voting in schools, churches and military tents in an election in which the ruling party is favored to win despite growing discontent in the southern African ...

A United Nations human rights expert on Friday urged Botswana's government to grant constitutional recognition and stronger protections to indigenous communities, citing longstanding discrimination ...

In a major victory for LGBTQ rights in Southern Africa, Botswana’s highest court has overturned a colonial-era law that criminalized same-sex relationships with penalties of up to seven years in ...

Gaborone, Botswana — ZIMBABWE continues to pursue dialogue with Botswana to ensure the seamless movement of people from both countries, including securing a special dispensation for locals working in ...

JOHANNESBURG -- After the NGO he was working at folded, Tendekayi Katsiga landed himself a good job at Debswana, the huge diamond company formed as a partnership between Botswana and DeBeers. It ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The country of diamonds now has a gold. The people of Botswana have been given the afternoon off work Friday through a presidential decree so that they could celebrate the ...

The San are hunter-gatherers who were evicted from their ancestral land in the Kalahari, where there are diamond deposits. They have lived in southern Africa for tens of thousands of years but are ...