Botswana

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China supports Africa in responding to climate change

China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said on October 13 that China has been supporting Africa in responding to climate change and has never been absent. The eighth ministerial meeting of FOCAC adopted the Declaration…

18 October 2022

The Ndaba-Dumelang-axis-ponders over prospects for a -change-of-government-in-2024. (Pic (C) Weekend Post)

Newly-formed Botswana Labour Party joins AP/BCP negotiations for a new Alliance

Press Release 14th October 2022 The Alliance for Progressives (AP) and the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) wish to brief the nation about the continuing negotiations between the two parties. These negotiations are meant to design…

14 October 2022

Mr. Nail Olpak, President of Foreign Economic Relations Board of Türkiye (DEIK).

Business Botswana and Botswana Exporters and Manufacturers Association signed MoU on Cooperation with Türkiye’s Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK)

The Pan Afrikanist Watchman The private sector umbrella organisations of Botswana and Türkiye signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation during a virtual meeting on Tuesday, 10 October 2022. The tripartite MoU was signed by…

11 October 2022

Mayor of Gaborone Abraham Austin in Sevilla, Spain for Mayors Conference

The Pan Afrikanist Watchman THE Mayor of Gaborone Austin Abraham is this week attending the Mayors conference in Seville, Spain from the 11th to 13th of October 2022. The conference is held under the theme…

11 October 2022

PNR ESG Manager Shamil Agosi lauded Tsholofelo Project as a masterstroke

Tsholofelo Carnival Sparks Hope for renewal in Selibe Phikwe 

Thelma Obakeng A series of events that culminated with the carnival independence parade and sports event under the aegis of Tsholofelo Project, has sparked hope that the economy of Selibe Phikwe shall finally return to…

9 October 2022

Ten Batswana win Indian scholarships

The Botswana Minister of Youth, Gender, Sport and Culture Hon. Tumiso M. Rakgare handed over scholarship kits to the candidates proceeding to India on 27th September 2022 to join Indian Universities on Scholarships. In a…

27 September 2022

ITEC Day celebration highlights women empowerment  

The Pan Afrikanist reporter In a luncheon hosted by the High Commissioner of India and Special Representative to SADC, H.E. Dr. Rajesh Ranjan on the 17th September 2022 in Gaborone, women empowerment was one of…

22 September 2022

African Union Commission in a stinking recruitment scandal

Appointment of new Legal Counsel raises eyebrows Botswana Guardian (BG) recently unmasked the widespread corruption, mismanagement of resources, workers’ rights violations and other irregularities that have become the norm in the African Union Headquarters and…

22 September 2022

Europe politicizing world food crisis 

*Implementation of Istanbul Agreements on Ukrainian Grain Export The Pan Afrikanist Watchman On July 22, 2022, in Istanbul, two important agreements were simultaneously signed. The first one is the Initiative for the Safe Transportation of…

20 September 2022

Lilibet: 'the rock on which modern Britain was built'

British Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, 96, has died after a 70-year-old reign

Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. She died peacefully on Thursday afternoon at her Scottish estate, where she had spent much of the…

8 September 2022

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