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There's renewed hope that Government will eventually recognise the San ethnic group as 'Indigenous' to Botswana

Ditshwanelo wants socioeconomic and cultural rights enshrined in Botswana’s Constitution

The Pan Afrikanist Watchman DITSHWANELO – The Botswana Centre for Human Rights – has called on the government of Botswana to ensure that everyone has dignity, freedom and access to justice through constitutionally protected provisions.…

9 December 2024

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to Tucker Carlson, Moscow, December 6, 2024

Question: Minister Lavrov, thank you for doing this. Do you believe the United States and Russia are at war with each other right now? Sergey Lavrov: I wouldn’t say so. And in any case, this is not…

7 December 2024

Chinese Ambassador Fang Yong

CELEBRATION OF THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF CHINA- BOTSWANA DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS AND 15th ANNIVERSARY OF BOCFA

Cynthia Thanda The evening of 1st December 2024 had SSKB Auditorium in Gaborone buzzing with excitement, joy filled smiles and vibrance as the Chinese Embassy was celebrating the 50th Anniversary of China-Botswana Diplomatic Relations as…

5 December 2024

The Kimberley Process (KP) chairperson is also the executive chairperson for the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC)_

Ahmed Bin Sulayem: Europe’s bid to inspect, approve diamonds from foreign jurisdictions an abusive overreach

The Group of Seven (G7), an intergovernmental organisation, which consists of the world’s largest developed economies (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States), worked together with the leaders of the…

5 December 2024

President Boko meeting Martin Rapaport

Botswana to Establish Export Certification Node for Rough Diamonds in Collaboration with G7

diamond world news service 28 Nov 2024, 9:48 am This initiative aims to enhance traceability and transparency in the diamond supply chain, ensuring alignment with G7 import requirements, which ban Russian-origin diamonds. The G7 implemented…

3 December 2024

Participants at the Gauteng Climate Change Indaba

Premier Lesufi Optimistic About Gauteng’s Ability to Address Climate Change Challenges

Johannesburg, 1 December 2024 By Emmanuel Koro Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi has expressed confidence that Gauteng has transitioned from addressing climate challenges through “an ad hoc programme” to a more permanent initiative led by a…

2 December 2024

SADC PF calls for Rights-Based Approach to HIV and AIDS on World AIDS Day 2024

By Moses Magadza The Secretary-General of the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) Ms Boemo Sekgoma, has underscored the need for a rights-based approach in the global response to HIV and AIDS. In…

2 December 2024

Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov

The exploitation of former colonies by colonial powers has never stopped – Russia’s FM, Sergey Lavrov tells Rossiyskaya Gazeta

Question: You represented Russia at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro. Shortly before that, a series of meetings with African foreign ministers took place in Sochi, a city that hosted the first ministerial conference of…

29 November 2024

Catherine Flon (1772-1831) was a Haitian seamstress, patriot and national heroine

The Warrior Women of the Antilles, the Tricoteuse Catherine Flon and the Flag which sparked the flames of World Revolutionary Movement

By Ambassador Phatse Justice Pitso 18 November 2024 History bequeaths the warrior women of the Amazons of the Latin American and the Caribbean archipelago, the most profound to have shaped the world by their example,…

27 November 2024

President Boko meeting Martin Rapaport, the chairman of the Rapaport Group and founder of the Rapaport Diamond Report and RapNet, an online diamond trading network

Joint campaigns with leading retailers in the US, India, and China position natural diamonds as the ultimate symbol of love and heritage

BY ADVOCATE DUMA GIDEON BOKO PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF BOTSWANA FACETS 2024 THEME: “NAVIGATING A NEW ERA” DATE:         26 NOVEMBER 2024 VENUE:       HANDELSBEURS, ANTWERP, BELGIUM        Good morning to you all! Mr.…

27 November 2024

SADC PF Secretary-General Ms Boemo Sekgoma addresses Joint Sitting

Growing calls for stronger Parliamentary oversight of prisons in Southern Africa

By Moses Magadza in Johannesburg, South Africa A joint sitting of five standing committees of the SADC Parliamentary Forum began in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Thursday. The Secretary General of the SADC PF, Ms. Boemo…

25 April 2025

HSDSP-MEMBERS

SADC PF Committee proposes bold  recommendations on prison oversight

By Moses Magadza in Johannesburg, South Africa On Wednesday, a one-day meeting of the SADC Parliamentary Forum’s Standing Committee on Human and Social Development and Special Programmes (HSDSP) ended in Johannesburg with strong calls for…

24 April 2025

Delegations of Russia and South Africa led by the two countries' Foreign Ministers, Sergey Lavrov and Ronald Lamola

Russia’s FM, Sergey Lavrov discussed a range of bilateral issues with his South African counterpart, Ronald Lamola

Sergey Lavrov, the Foreign Minister of Russia met with South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola on April 16. Lamola had arrived in Moscow for the 18th meeting of the Mixed Intergovernmental…

23 April 2025

President Putin announces Easter ceasefire

President of Russia Vladimir Putin announces Easter ceasefire

During a meeting at the Kremlin with the Chief of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov President Vladimir Putin declared that the Russian Side is ceasing all military action starting April 19,…

20 April 2025

On April 17, 2025, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a telephone conversation

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has a phone conversation with his US counterpart, Marco Rubio

On April 17, 2025, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a telephone conversation. Secretary Rubio, who is currently in Paris, informed the Russian side about the…

20 April 2025

In the first installment of the Two Shores Dialogue series, two journalists — Ma Jiaying from China and Héribert Adjovi from Africa — exchange insights on the pressing issues of our time: rising trade protectionism, the shifting global order, and the long-term consequences of tariff wars. Reflecting on the legacy of the Bandung Conference, they advocate for renewed solidarity among the Global South, grounded in the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. A powerful, thoughtful dialogue that bridges continents and visions.

Beyond the tariff crisis, it’s time to take a fair look at globalisation… 70 years after the Bandung Conference

‘A LOOK FROM BOTH SIDES’ is first and foremost an interesting Dialogue between two Friends, two eminent Journalists and a crossed vision of two media professionals, one Chinese and the other African (Beninese) on major…

20 April 2025