Botswana News

Discovery Metals - " An Investors Dream It's Sunday morning in early November, I have been visiting some friends nearby the DML camp, and we are talking about the pre-feasibility drilling program that is ...

Annes Okavango Taxi will start service on November 23rd, 2007 between Seronga and Sepopa. The 'river taxi' can be used for practical purpose - it can save over 3 hours of travel or for sightseeing. I've done the trip by boat before and it is a beautiful way the see the Okavango Delta - birds, crocs and hippos.

Batswana have been called on to adhere to safer sex practices at all times to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS pandemic so that individual dreams as well as that of the nation are realised.

Doctors in Botswana, already battling one of the highest levels of HIV per capita in the world, are being overwhelmed by a dramatic rise in cancer cases as a result of the epidemic.

Stakeholders recently met in Maun to brainstorm on the development of a manual that would guide the ecotourism industry in Botswana.

Discovery Metals announced an expanded 6.5 km strike length of copper-silver mineralisation has been confirmed by the latest results from the on-going diamond drilling at the Plutus Prospect within the Maun ...

The Department of Animal Health and Production is involved in frantic efforts to contain yet another outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the Ngamiland area.

How far do African elephants travel for food and water, and what happens when humans need these things too? Dr Mike Chase and his EWB team fitted satellite collars to three elephants to find out.

Lucky Dube, 43, was killed in an apparent carjacking attempt on Thursday evening and police were searching for three suspects, police spokesman Eugene Opperman said.

One of the success stories of the power and reach of citizen media in Africa is definitely The Nata Village Blog .

Maun, the gateway to the Okavango Delta, is set to sizzle when 23 young and vibrant aspiring models land in the village on October 27 to compete in the 2007 Model of The Year Botswana semi finals.

“Perhaps we should host several of these conferences ourselves in the future not only to lure diamond companies to Botswana, but to reassure (ourselves) that Botswana has the capacity to deliver as the new world diamond center”

As the country embarks on taking centre stage in the world's diamond trade through the opening of the Diamond Trading Centre in Gaborone in the New Year, Botswana should start hosting major international ... via AllAfrica.com

“While there are some people who wish that I stand, I can only wait until the party has opened the doors for applications on October 22 when I will be able to fully decide whether I duly express my interest or not”

After the ruling Botswana Democratic Party chose its parliamentary candidates in Gaborone through consensus last week attention now shifts to the opposition primaries. via AllAfrica.com

Judging from activities of the past few months, it appears Botswana is on the threshold of an unprecedented bustle of exploitation of its vast - and until now, unknown - wealth in mineral resources.

Botswana is under increasing diplomatic pressure to rescind a list of foreign nationals demanded to get visas prior to their travel to Botswana.

The increased mining activities in Botswana will make a great impact in the growth of the economy, says the Deputy Managing Director of Stanbic Bank, Mr Leina Gabaraane.

Lucy King, a zoologist at Oxford University, who led the study, said on Monday that nearly all the elephants exposed to recordings of angry buzzing bees ran away immediately, in contrast to pachyderms who heard ...

A Bushman human rights organisation today reported that at least ten men in Kaudwane resettlement camp have been arrested and beaten by wildlife officials for hunting.

World Travel and Tourism Council predicts in its inaugural Botswana Report launched last week in Gaborone that this year alone travel and tourism will grow by more than seven percent.

The Trans-Okavango Transect is the brainchild of Maun businessman, Lars Elvenes – it is a scientific, data-collecting expedition that traverses the Okavango from Maun to Mohembo.