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Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Dr Anxious Jongwe Masuka will next week meet with his counterparts from Botswana, Mozambique and South Africa to discuss a raft of issues and to recommit their support to deepening transboundary cooperation in the Limpopo River Basin. The meeting will be held on […]
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Sifelani Tsiko in Gaborone, Botswana Former Botswana president Ian Khama has been criticised for aiding UK lawmakers in their efforts to enact a ban on trophy hunting product imports, a major source of livelihood and income for southern countries with large wildlife populations. Botswana environment and tourism minister Dumezweni Mthimkhulu told journalists drawn from the […]
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Mkhululi Chimoio in Gaborone, Botswana Zimbabwe and Botswana have improved collaboration in combating trans-boundary crime, thanks to the able leadership of Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Mokgweetsi Masisi . Botswana’s Minister of Defence and Security, Thomas Kagiso Mmusi, said this recently while addressing journalists, highlighting success against mushrooming white-collar crime, armed robberies, cross-border livestock rustling and […]
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The U.S. government, through its Department of Defense (DoD), donated two isolation facilities worth over P2.9 million to the Botswana government in a handover ceremony in Bobonong. The two facilities, constructed through the U.S. military Africa Command’s (USAFRICOM) Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid program, will support critical pandemic mitigation efforts in the region. This […]
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Sri Lankan High Commissioner for South Africa Sirisena Amarasekara recently visited the Republic of Botswana and held bilateral discussions with the Minister of International Affairs and Cooperation of Botswana Dr. Lemogang Kwape. High Commissioner Amarasekara conveyed greetings from the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka Prof. G. L. Peiris to Dr. Lemogang Kwape. During the discussion, […]
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Botswana has become the first high-burden country to be certified for achieving an important milestone on the path to eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV by the World Health Organization (WHO). High-burden HIV countries are defined as those with more than 2% of pregnant women living with the virus. Botswana has achieved the “silver tier” status, […]
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Felex Share Senior Reporter— Political analysts yesterday lauded former South African President Thabo Mbeki for respecting the African Union (AU) and United Nations (UN) principle of sovereignty by categorically stating that his compatriots had no right to meddle in Zimbabwe’s internal affairs. This comes as Malawian President Mr Peter
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Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau— Government intends to introduce a fuel levy to finance a new Road Accident Fund to ensure compulsory compensation of road traffic accident victims. The fund will also cover disbursements of funds to victims on compassionate and medical grounds. Various options on the structure and operations of the fund are still
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Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story THE Meteorological Services Department 9pm TV weather forecast last Monday said nothing about the earth tremors that had shaken large parts of Zimbabwe barely an hour earlier, stoking apocalyptic fear among thousands of people.
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THE fairly powerful 6,5 magnitude earthquake that hit central Botswana on Monday night and which shook large areas of Zimbabwe fortunately appears to have caused no casualties and even in central Botswana only very minor damage.
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Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter Zimbabwe is likely to experience violent aftershocks that can cause damage to buildings and cause debris to fall, endangering people’s lives, following an earthquake that hit Botswana on Monday, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned.
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Herald Reporter— MOST parts of Zimbabwe, including Harare and Bulawayo, were yesterday shaken for more than a minute by tremors from an earthquake that occurred in central Botswana which started at 7:40:15pm, almost 350 kilometres southwest of Plumtree.
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Bulawayo Bureau FOUR men from Bulawayo have been arrested in connection with the brutal murder of Air Zimbabwe public relations executive, Mrs Shingai Dhliwayo, who was killed in Botswana last month.