If you fancy the idea of walking in Botswana with a group of elephants, then Gavin Ford is your man. |
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Katima Mulilo, the regional capital, is the gateway to the Chobe National Park in Botswana and the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. |
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The source of the outbreak was traced to neighbouring Zimbabwe, prompting Botswana to erect a high-cost electric fence on the border. |
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She drew animals in motion during visits to national parks in Botswana, Kenya and Uganda. |
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Conservationists say 120,000 elephants are now trapped in Botswana, with no natural routes to follow back to the river. |
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The Zambia under-18 squad opened the quadrangular rugby tournament in Jwaneng with a 19-6 victory over their Botswana hosts. |
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One trader along the border of what are today South Africa and Botswana employed 400 African hunters in the pursuit of rhino horn. |
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Botswana yesterday marked 38 years of independence with a win over Zambia in an international friendly soccer match played in Gaborone. |
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In South Africa they appear mostly in bushveld areas, along the KwaZulu-Natal coast, north of Pretoria right up to Botswana. |
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The descendants of the Khoikhoi and San can be found in the deserts of Botswana and Namibia today. |
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The first inhabitants of Mozambique were hunters and gatherers, ancestors of the Khoisan now found in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia. |
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The Yei of Ngamiland in Botswana were known for a type of beadwork in which white and black were contrasted to form true optical illusions. |
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The slender Caprivi Strip is nested between Zambia and Botswana and is a wet area of woodland blessed with a few rivers. |
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In June 1964, Britain accepted proposals for democratic self-government in Botswana. |
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The dollar this week made up ground on the Zimbabwe dollar, the Romanian leu, and Botswana pula. |
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Floods that have also swept through the neighbouring countries of South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe have particularly hit Mozambique. |
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From the dust bowl of the Kalahari Desert to the flood plains of the Okavango Delta, Botswana is an untouched wilderness. |
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During 23 months we observed 110 inter-group interactions involving four groups of chacma baboons in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. |
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With a large area and small population, Botswana also faced the problem of access to services in rural areas. |
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The Okavango's unpredictable waterways find their way over the thirstlands of northwestern Botswana, creating a lush delta of tree-fringed islands and secret channels. |
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Their trip included six days in a game park followed by a jaunt to Zambia and Botswana, broken up by an interlude in Africa's answer to Vegas, Sun City. |
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Bantu, Khoisan, and Indo-European languages are spoken in Botswana. |
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Further south in Botswana, the famous Bushmen of the Kalahari desert are being moved out of the reserve where they have ranged free for centuries. |
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Heinz makes ketchup, pizza crust, baby cereal and other edibles in such countries as Poland, Venezuela, Botswana, Thailand, and most of all, China and India. |
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In neighbouring Botswana torrential rains that have lashed the southern, central and eastern parts of the country are now moving towards tourist destinations in the west. |
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In Botswana, with a relatively wealthy economy due to income from diamond mining, it is estimated that health spending will more than treble over the next 10 years. |
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As with top-quality Brazilian agate, uncut Botswana agate is difficult to obtain because rough material is sold for the production of beads, jewelry, and souvenirs. |
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Italy ranks below Botswana, while Namibia scores equal with Greece. |
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The long-term project will also include a ramped-up security effort in Botswana for its new citizens. |
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If the rhinos are instead driven to Botswana, travel time could be up to 48 hours. |
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The 13,000-person strong anti-poaching Botswana Defense Force protects the animals in a country. |
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The aircraft stops once to clear South African customs, then flies on to Botswana. |
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The urban improvisations of the Stomp crew are set against the rhythms and simple instruments of the tribes of five continents, from Brazil to Botswana. |
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As a patron of Tusk Trust, a conservation charity, Williamtravelled to Botswana in 2010 to raise awareness of the issue. |
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According to the Daily Mail, the diamond was cut from a 236-carat rough diamond found in Botswana. |
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In Botswana, she said, the government manages and pays for its national HIV program. |
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They file for divorce, only to remarry in Botswana and then divorce again a year later. |
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This is a great way to experience the bush, especially up around the Okavango Delta in Botswana, when there's no moon and the lions are prowling around the campsite. |
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The Ministry of Health in Botswana is responsible for overseeing the quality and distribution of healthcare throughout the country. |
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Botswana has become a haven of sorts for endangered animals. |
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It was then known as Bechuanaland, Basutoland, and Swaziland, with the first two renamed after independence, Botswana and Lesotho, respectively. |
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A network of HIV counselling and testing facilities means that access to free, anonymous, same-day HIV testing is available throughout Botswana. |
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According to the Botswana Chamber of Mines, they have lofty ideals to be counted amongst the top five coal producers in the world. |
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The United States considers Botswana an excellent partner and an advocate of and model for stability in Africa. |
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Location of the solar plants will be in Munyati, nearby Insukamini and Gwanda, the capital of Matabeleland South, near the Botswana border. |
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Since independence was declared, the party system has been dominated by the Botswana Democratic Party. |
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Botswana National Front President, Otsweletse Moupo said he had no doubt that Motshidisi would serve the Palapye community well as kgosi. |
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Small unprogrammed meetings exist also in Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe. |
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Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana, spent a year at Balliol College. |
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The Methodist Church operates across South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, with a limited presence in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. |
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Botswana also argued that the government continues to encourage legal movement into the country. |
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Part of Namibia's borders with Botswana and South Africa are defined by the meridian. |
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Named Henry, the crocodile is said to have lived in Botswana along the Okavango River, according to centre director Martin Rodrigues. |
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It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. |
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The only perennial rivers are found on the national borders with South Africa, Angola, Zambia, and the short border with Botswana in the Caprivi. |
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South African English and its slang also has a substantial presence in neighbouring countries like Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia. |
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The rest of the family is found predominantly in the Kalahari Desert of Botswana. |
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Botswana is topographically flat, with up to 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahari Desert. |
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Botswana is a member of the African Union, the Southern African Development Community, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the United Nations. |
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The history of Botswana starts more than 100,000 years ago, when the first humans inhabited the region. |
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About a thousand years ago, large chiefdoms emerged that were later eclipsed by the Great Zimbabwe empire, which spread into eastern Botswana. |
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Conquered tribes began to move northwest into Botswana, destroying everything in their path. |
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The Chobe River lies to the north, providing a boundary between Botswana and Namibia's Zambezi Region. |
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Northern Botswana has one of the few remaining large populations of the endangered African wild dog. |
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Since raising livestock has proven to be profitable for the people of Botswana, they continue to exploit the land. |
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The stipulation of the US reducing Botswana's debt is that Botswana will focus on more extensive conservation of the land. |
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To help change this the UNDP joined in with a project started in the southern community of Struizendam in Botswana. |
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The constitution of Botswana is the rule of law which protects the citizens of Botswana and represents their rights. |
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According to Transparency International, Botswana is the least corrupt country in Africa and ranks close to Portugal and South Korea. |
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Judges are appointed by the President of Botswana on the recommendation of the Judicial Services Commission. |
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Since independence, Botswana has had one of the fastest growth rates in per capita income in the world. |
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The Ministry of Trade and Industry of Botswana is responsible for promoting business development throughout the country. |
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Botswana has a high level of economic freedom compared to other African countries. |
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While generally open to foreign participation in its economy, Botswana reserves some sectors for citizens. |
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Botswana imports refined petroleum products and electricity from South Africa. |
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Since 2000, because of deteriorating economic conditions in Zimbabwe, the number of Zimbabweans in Botswana has risen into the tens of thousands. |
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The official language of Botswana is English although Setswana is widely spoken across the country. |
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For example, the main ethnic group of Botswana is the Tswana people, hence the name Botswana for its country. |
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Botswana cultural musical instruments are not confined only to the strings or drums. |
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The cuisine of Botswana is unique but also shares some characteristics with other cuisine of Southern Africa. |
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Botswana won the country's first Olympic medal in 2012 when runner Nijel Amos won silver in the 800 metres. |
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The Botswana Ministry of Education is working to establish libraries in primary schools in partnership with the African Library Project. |
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Botswana is planning to use science and technology to diversify its economy and thereby reduce its dependence on diamond mining. |
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Up to 60 tonnes of stockpiled ivory in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa could be sold if the ban is lifted. |
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In a bid to establish Waterman Botswana, Waterman Swaziland has secured a deal with a Tswana entrepreneur. |
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This retrospective cohort study evaluated SSTI isolates from January 2000 to December 2007 at Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, Botswana. |
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South African Express Airways is today introducing flights between Cape Town and Gaborone, Botswana. |
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In 2007 he returned to Botswana and is currently group hydrogeologist with the Debswana Diamond Company. |
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Mr Nicholas John Pyle OBE, MBE has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Botswana. |
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The United Nations Development Programme claims that poverty is a major problem behind the overexploitation of resources, including land, in Botswana. |
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By December 2008 more than 10,000 people had been infected in all but one of Zimbabwe's provinces and the outbreak had spread to Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia. |
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It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the west and southwest, Zambia to the northwest, and Mozambique to the east and northeast. |
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Botswana pula, Euro, Indian Rupees, Pound sterling, Australian Dollars. |
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Many of the unofficial languages of the San and Khoikhoi people contain regional dialects stretching northwards into Namibia and Botswana, and elsewhere. |
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The Governments of Botswana and the United States entered into an agreement in July 2000 to establish an International Law Enforcement Academy in Gaborone. |
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Oliver, Hammond's restored Opel Kadett from the Botswana adventure, was placed behind his lorry and he eventually forfeited rather than risk crushing it. |
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While the Botswana Defence Force troops were welcomed, tensions with South African National Defence Force troops were high, resulting in fighting. |
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What will then be old coin will be demonetised and exchangeable for equivalent value only at the Bank of Botswana in Gaborone and Francistown for a period of five years. |
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Meanwhile, one of their hairiest moments came on the Okavango in Botswana. |
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Other destinations in Botswana include the Gaborone Yacht Club and the Kalahari Fishing Club and natural attractions such as the Gaborone Dam and Mokolodi Nature Reserve. |
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Secondary education in Botswana is neither free nor compulsory. |
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Botswana has responded that the fence is designed to keep out cattle, and to ensure that entrants have their shoes disinfected at legal border crossings. |
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Bachelor's degrees at the University of Botswana normally take four years. |
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He has worked in mineral processing and pyrometallurgical operations in a number of countries including South Africa, Botswana, Canada, USA, Russia and China. |
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Football is the most popular sport in Botswana, with qualification for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations being the national team's highest achievement to date. |
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In the northern part of Botswana, women in the villages of Etsha and Gumare are noted for their skill at crafting baskets from Mokola Palm and local dyes. |
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Botswana ranks 30th out of 167 states in the 2012 Democracy Index. |
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Al-Jeraiwi lauded the Botswana government efforts to upgrade the human rights situation in the country as well as its work to fight poverty and achieve economic prosperity. |
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The USG continues to offer Namibia opportunities for fully-funded law enforcement training programs at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Gaborone, Botswana. |
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Research from Botswana also points to lingering acceptability issues in the country, which in 2009 committed to medically circumcising 100 000 men each year. |
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Ultimate Botswana takes travelers on a safari and provides luxurious accommodations in the Moremi Game Reserve, Linyanti Wildlife Reserve and Makgadikgadi Salt Pan. |
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The governments of Abu Dhabi and the Republic of Botswana have signed a memorandum of understanding for ICT knowledge sharing, capacity building and skills transfer. |
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The Botswana Tourism Organisation is the country's official tourism group. |
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