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¤ Ruling Party in Botswana Holds Its Majority in Elections
The Botswana Democratic Party had been expected to retain control over the southern African nation, despite frustration over a recession and infighting in the party. | ¤ Connecting Nature’s Dots
Policy solutions for climate change, poverty, food security and biodiversity need to be as integrated as nature itself. | ¤ The Land of ‘No Service’
While maintaining “No Service” in the wild is essential for Africa’s ecotourism industry, the rest of the continent desperately needs more connectivity if it is to prosper. | ¤ Hooked on Classics
Chalk it up to a plunging euro, a splurge-worthy resort or just a fondness for the familiar -- destinations of yore are making a triumphant return. | ¤ Botswana’s Ex-President Wins Leadership Prize
 Festus G. Mogae was honored for consolidating his nation’s democracy, ensuring its diamond wealth enriched its people and providing bold leadership amid the AIDS pandemic. | ¤ Mugabe Blocks Zimbabwe Opposition Leader From Talks
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe prevented the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai from attending power-sharing talks by refusing to give him a passport. | ¤ Bringing the Art of Bidding to Botswana
John Pain, the manager of the English Bridge Union’s education department, traveled to Botswana, to coach teachers and tournament directors so they could spread the message of bridge. | ¤ Diamonds Are Forever in Botswana
 Botswana’s economic development has been aided by diamonds and by De Beers’s sense of corporate social responsibility. | ¤ Mugabe Opponent Cancels Return to Zimbabwe
The opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was to have returned to Zimbabwe on Saturday to begin campaigning in the June 27 presidential runoff. | ¤ How Baboons Think (Yes, Think)
 Reading a baboon’s mind affords an excellent grasp of the dynamics of baboon society. |
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¤ BOTSWANA/ZIMBABWE: Cross-border shoppers disappear
FRANCISTOWN Thursday, December 17, 2009 (IRIN) - Relative silence has replaced the bustle that Francistown, on the border between Botswana and Zimbabwe, used to experience during the peak shopping period at Christmas. | ¤ SOUTHERN AFRICA: Zimbabweans test the definition of refugee
JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, December 15, 2009 (IRIN) - The "humanitarian nature" of the mass movement of Zimbabweans to neighbouring Southern African countries has blurred the distinction between what is a "refugee" and an "economic migrant", because such people fit neither category perfectly and fall between the cracks, a new report says. | ¤ AFRICA: Vaccination key to stemming rotavirus, say experts
DAKAR Tuesday, December 08, 2009 (IRIN) - African health experts are calling on governments to vaccinate all children against rotavirus, to end an “unacceptable” yet preventable situation in which the virus kills some 1,400 children in developing countries daily. | ¤ SOUTH AFRICA: Male circumcision: why the delay?
JOHANNESBURG Thursday, December 03, 2009 (IRIN) - Countries all over Africa are at various stages of developing and implementing policies to roll out mass male circumcision to prevent HIV, but until recently South Africa has done little more than talk about a strategy of its own. | ¤ In Brief: All I want for Xmas ...is a bag of manure
NAIROBI Thursday, November 26, 2009 (IRIN) - From the first goat sales about five years ago, creative NGO fundraisers have expanded a range of animal and farm-related "gifts" for sale online to benefit developing countries. | ¤ In Brief: World hunger increases despite growth in food production
DUSHANBE Thursday, November 12, 2009 (IRIN) - Even as world food production grows, hunger is on the rise in many poor countries, according to the Global Crop Prospects and Food Situation report for November, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on 12 November. | ¤ BOTSWANA: What's driving HIV in Selebi-Phikwe?
SELEBI-PHIKWE Thursday, November 12, 2009 (IRIN) - In most respects, there is nothing remarkable about Selebi-Phikwe, a mining town in northeastern Botswana with a population of about 50,000. The central business district is a sun-baked main street with a few shops and a taxi rank; the copper and nickel mine on its outskirts is the main source of employment. | ¤ In Brief: Cash does not always mean quality food aid
JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, November 11, 2009 (IRIN) - A move by donor countries to provide aid agencies with cash, allowing them the flexibility to source cheaper or more appropriate food in the region or beneficiary country and save on transport and warehousing costs, is not addressing nutritional needs, according to a new report. | ¤ BOTSWANA: A risky combination of alcohol and sex
SELEBI-PHIKWE Thursday, November 05, 2009 (IRIN) - On a recent Wednesday evening, Gillian Otsile, a volunteer at a local NGO, Men Sex and AIDS, approached a group of young men drinking cartons of traditional sorghum beer at a tavern in Selebi-Phikwe, a mining town in northeastern Botswana. | ¤ AFRICA: Turning to traditional medicines in fight against malaria
NAIROBI Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (IRIN) - Encouraging the use of traditional African herbal medicines could prevent some of the one million malarial deaths on the continent, according to specialists attending a conference www.mimalaria.org/pamc in Nairobi. Many poor communities, especially in rural settings, cannot afford modern malarial drugs and many people die due to inaccessibility of treatment. |
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