Renewables readiness assessment: Botswana
Botswana has considerable unexploited renewable energy potential, especially as solar, wind and bioenergy and aims to use these renewables to achieve economic energy security and independence. Botswana
Botswana
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Government makes Bushmen's return to forests difficult
In December 2006, Botswana's Bushmen won legal rights to return to their homes in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (See
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Botswana's Bushmen to return to Kalahari Game Reserve
Botswana's autochthonous Bushmen (or the San people) have won legal rights to return to their ancestral homeland in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, after the High Court of Botswana ruled against
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Review of options for managing the impacts of locally overabundant African elephants
The African elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the world
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Kenya's Ogiek tribe fights government to return home
Kenya's Ogiek tribal people, one of the last hunter-gatherer communities in east Africa, have joined Botswana's San people (or Bushmen) in their fight against the government to allow them return to
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Eviction of tribes by the Bostwana government draws criticism
Health and Indigenous People's Displacement
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News Snippets
• Two Kalahari Bushmen have begun a month-long tour of the us, to raise awareness of the Botswana government's eviction of their people from their ancestral land, in the Central Kalahari Game
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An amendment to deny
In a historic move, Bushmen sued the Botswana government for forcing them off their ancestral land, the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (ckgr). Lending a new twist to things, a Botswana government
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Shoring up its defences
A 500-kilometre electric fence, feels Botswana, will keep most of its problems out. It is erecting the fence along its border with Zimbabwe to purportedly prevent cattle infected with foot-and-mouth
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UNITED NATIONS
The third round of negotiations on a legally-binding treaty, which aims at restricting the use of hazardous chemicals and pesticides, was held in Nairobi in the last week of May. The meeting was
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Gender Audits of Energy Policy in Botswana and Senegal: What has been achieved?
From 2005 to 2007, ENERGIA