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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: Technology to catch undocumented migrants
GABORONE Monday, March 01, 2010 (IRIN) - Botswana is adopting a two-pronged approach to tackle abuse of its immigration system by increasing the sophistication of travel documents, visas and work permits, and putting more boots on the ground to apprehend undocumented foreign nationals. | ¤ SOUTHERN AFRICA: Children that slip across borders
PRETORIA Friday, February 26, 2010 (IRIN) - Zimbabwe's still-limping economy can provide few essential services, so children living along the border cross into South Africa to attend school during the day or even to see a doctor, often at great risk to their personal safety. | ¤ AFRICA: Finding the food crops of the future
JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, February 24, 2010 (IRIN) - Temperatures seem set to soar to perilously high levels because of climate change. In another 40 years, would maize still be the staple food in Kenya, already hit by five failed rainy seasons? If not, what could people grow and eat? And if you could grow maize, how much water and fertilizer would it need? | ¤ AFRICA: Rotavirus data must propel immunization - experts
DAKAR Wednesday, January 27, 2010 (IRIN) - Health experts hope the release of data showing the success of rotavirus vaccine will help compel policymakers to ensure all children will be immunized. | ¤ How To: Track the scent of life
JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, January 19, 2010 (IRIN) - The best search and rescue workers have stamina, a phenomenal sense of smell, and sharp hearing - they usually also have four legs. | ¤ AFRICA: Crackdowns on gays make the closet safer
NAIROBI Tuesday, January 19, 2010 (IRIN) - More than two-thirds of African countries have laws criminalizing homosexual acts, and despite accounting for a significant percentage of new infections in many countries, men who have sex with men tend to be left out of the HIV response. | ¤ 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. |
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