SANKUYO, Botswana — Lions have been coming out of the surrounding bush, prowling around homes and a small health clinic, to snatch goats and donkeys from the heart of Sankuyo, a village on the edge of ...

Botswana has one of the most stable and successful economies in the whole of Africa. But most opportunities are based in the bigger cities and towns. That has led to worries that small villages could ...

Ahead of the 2019 General Elections one of the trump card for political parties was the supply of potable water to all communities in Botswana as well provision of waste water management. Two years ...

Gaborone — The closure of two major mines and the scaling down of operations at most mines in Botswana have had a knock-on effect beyond miners in this southern African producer of diamonds. When ...

GAKUTO, Botswana -- The lights should have come on months ago in this tiny bush village outside the capital, Gabarone. As part of a rural improvement effort, government officials last year announced ...

Cell phones have become the newest accessory in medicine. The Botswana-UPenn Partnership has begun to use cell phone technology as a way of increasing access to medical care in rural and under-served ...

But most opportunities are based in the bigger cities and towns. That has led to worries that small villages could face a lingering death unless there are moves to boost their economies. The village ...

Alexander McCall Smith, author of an acclaimed series of novels set in Botswana, celebrates the charm and beauty of its people and landscape It used to be called the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and ...