SADC Parliamentary Forum participates in second regional meeting on climate action oversight
Moses Magadza WINDHOEK, Namibia – The Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) participated in the Second Southern Africa Parliamentarian Regional Meeting in Windhoek, Namibia last week. The event, held from July 31 to August 2, brought…
16 August 2024
Award winning Al Jazeera Correspondent Youmma El-Sayed visits Botswana, recounts Israel atrocities in Gaza
The Pan Africanist Watchman An award winning journalist, who is also an Al Jazeera English Correspondent, Ms Youmma El-Sayed has surmounted courage to travel around the worlds to share the story of Gaza. El-Sayed, who…
16 August 2024
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Namibia’s Media Ombudsman condemns the publishing of photo depicting dead lion
By: Vitalio Angula The publishing of a photo depicting a lion that was tracked down and killed by rangers of Namibia’s Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism on Saturday 10 August (World Lion Day) on…
15 August 2024
Fidel Castro with Ghana's founding president, Kwame Nkrumah
Fidel Castro: A Lesson To African Leaders
The late Fidel Castro lent support to several African and Caribbean countries, providing medical, educational, and in some cases military, aid. Now, posits Addai Sebo, the African Union (AU), and indeed the African diaspora, must…
14 August 2024
The Olympics Glory has landed in Botswana!
Tuesday 13th August 2024 by TPA Watchman It was a scene from a fairy tale! Multitudes of Batswana flocked SSKIA, the country’s premiere airport in Gaborone on Tuesday 13th August 2024, some forming a beeline…
13 August 2024
The National Endowment for Democracy: What It Is and What It Does
Updated: August 09, 2024 10:00 August 2024 Introduction The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) acts as the US government’s “white gloves.” It has long engaged in subverting state power in other countries, meddling in other countries’ internal affairs, inciting division and…
13 August 2024
Ambassador Fan Yong presents Letters of Credence to Foreign Minister Dr Lemogang Kwape
Chinese New Ambassador Mr. Fan Yong arrives in Botswana to assume office ahead of next month’s FOCAC Summit
On August 6, 2024, His Excellency Fan Yong, the newly-appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of Botswana, arrived in Gaborone to assume office. He was warmly received…
12 August 2024
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson, Mao Ning
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning’s Remarks on August 9, 2024
RIA Novosti: The Eastern Economic Forum 2024 will be held at the campus of the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok from September 3 to 6. Does China plan to send representatives to the forum…
12 August 2024
Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya. Photo: Contributed
When writing becomes a distraction!
Tsitsi Nomsa Ngwenya (TNN) is one of renowned Zimbabwean writers who writes in Ndebele and English. She was born in Matebeleland South Province in Zimbabwe to a Ndebele father and Shona mother. She grew up…
11 August 2024
Secretary General of the SADC Parliamentary Forum Ms Boemo Sekgoma. Photo: Contributed
SADC PF SG urges addressing access to digital technology for the youth
By Moses Magadza WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA – As the world celebrates International Youth Day on August 12, the Secretary General of the SADC Parliamentary Forum Ms Boemo Sekgoma has highlighted the intersection of digital access and…
11 August 2024