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The ICC has no jurisdiction over Russia and its citizens – Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at Arria-formula meeting of UNSC members “Children and armed conflict: Ukrainian crisis. Evacuating children from conflict zone”, April 5, 2023 The Pan Afrikanist Watchman We welcome you to this…

20 April 2023

High Commissioner Designate to Kenya Andrew Onalenna Sesinyi takes up his appointment in Nairobi in May (C) Mmegi

Seasoned Journalist, Author and Diplomat Andrew Sesinyi appointed High Commissioner to Kenya

The Pan Afrikanist Watchman Seasoned journalist Andrew Sesinyi – who boasts over three decades of an illustrious career in the public service, banking industry, and international media organisations – has been appointed High Commissioner to…

20 April 2023

President Hage Geingob of Namibia (File Picture)

President of Namibia: the Russian – African summit will enable to promote the idea of the new world

In his exclusive interview to Mikhail Gusman, First Deputy Director General of TASS, Hage Geingob, President of Namibia, told about his expectations from the visit to St. Petersburg for the Russian–African summit, his attitude towards…

19 April 2023

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meeting BRICS African Ambassadors in Moscow recently

Russian Embassy in Botswana dismisses Sunday Standard article as ‘complete nonsense’

Press Release Two months after Sunday Standard’s article “Masisi gets on Putin’s bad side”, to which our Embassy had already reacted accordingly (follow the link to read our comments) another invention appeared in the latest…

19 April 2023

Tsatsi rises with the sun: Bright and Explosive

Cynthia Thanda “Tsatsii, they say great things come in little packages, if dynamites were a person it would be you: Explosive and smart, always planning two steps ahead of the foes and just when the…

15 April 2023

Chinese President Xi Jinping holds a trilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, April 6, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua]

China’s President Xi Jinping holds trilateral meeting with France’s Emmanuel Macron, European Union’s Ursula von der Leyen

BEIJING, April 6 — Chinese President Xi Jinping held a trilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Beijing on Thursday. Xi pointed out that China and…

10 April 2023

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs

The West’s False Narrative about Russia and China

Prof. Jeffrey D. Sachs* The world is on the edge of nuclear catastrophe in no small part because of the failure of Western political leaders to be forthright about the causes of the escalating global…

8 April 2023

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Over half of the settlements between Russia and China denominated in national currencies

The Pan Afrikanist Watchman Argumenty i Fakty: Chinese President Xi Jinping recently was in Russia on an official visit. What was the outcome of the Russian-Chinese talks? Sergey Lavrov: The state visit by President of the People’s Republic of…

5 April 2023

Namibia back-peddles on commitment to wildlife conservation

By Vitalio Angula The year Twenty Twenty-Three (2023) marks the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, Wildlife and Flora (CITES). On the 3rd of March, the United Nations…

3 April 2023

Botswana holds Computer Science Education Summit in efforts to build knowledge economy

Thelma Obakeng Seitshiro The Computer Science Education Botswana held a two-day summit on the 30th and 31st March 2023 in an effort to create change towards providing inclusive computer science education for all in Botswana.…

3 April 2023

Japan Film Festival 2026 to open in Gaborone with free public screenings

The Embassy of Japan in Botswana will officially launch the Japan Film Festival 2026 in Gaborone on 9 October, with Ambassador Shindo Yusuke set to officiate at the opening ceremony at New Capitol Cinemas in…

5 October 2026

BCP President Dumelang Saleshando

BOTSWANA AT 60: A MOMENT TO CELEBRATE, A MOMENT TO RESOLVE!

29 September 2026 Dumelang Saleshando* As we mark Botswana’s 60th birthday on 30 September, we take pride in the journey we have travelled together. We were once a poor country whose very survival was doubted…

5 October 2026

Sahrawi activists launch open-ended hunger strike, urge African rights body to intervene

ADDIS ABABA – An urgent appeal has been submitted to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), calling for immediate intervention on behalf of nine Sahrawi political prisoners who have launched an open-ended…

5 October 2026

President Brahim Ghali calls for accelerating the decolonisation process in Western Sahara, Africa’s last colony

Bir Lehlou (Sahrawi Republic), September 7, 2026 (SPS) – President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr Brahim Ghali, sent a letter to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, informing him of the latest…

3 October 2026

Nigeria's Bola Tinubu met South Africa's Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa in New York

AFRICA’S $3.4 TRILLION DREAM IS BLEEDING

By Fortune Madondo The diplomatic tension between Nigeria and South Africa is killing Pan-African solidarity. As the continent’s two economic powerhouses, their friction stalls consensus, disrupts trade, and bleeds the $3.4 trillion dream. It exposes…

1 October 2026

Benjamin Netanyahu

FROM UNGA WALKOUT TO PITCH CONTROVERSY

By Fortune Madondo In 72 hours, the same state was confronted in two theatres. On September 24, 2026, at the 81st UN General Assembly, an estimated 75 to 77 delegates walked out as Prime Minister…

1 October 2026