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
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Bots witnesses first ever gas-powered electricity
GABORONE – Australian firm Tlou Energy Limited has started generating electricity from coal bed methane (CBM), a first for Botswana where power has traditionally been sourced from thermal coal and solar.
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Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana ban South African poultry imports
Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana on Tuesday suspended poultry imports from South Africa with immediate effect following outbreaks of highly contagious H5N8 bird flu. South Africa has confirmed outbreaks
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Botswana leads in cheetah conservation
Botswana is leading the score boards in conservation of the world’s fastest land mammal, the cheetah otherwise scientifically known as the Acinonyx jubatus. The landlocked realm is home to at least
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Botswana to build new 100 MW solar plant
GABORONE – As part of its efforts to offset power deficit in the country, Botswana’s state run power utility is seeking a partner for a 100-MW solar power plant project with energy storage capacity in
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World Bank loans Botswana $145.5 million for emergency water projects
The World Bank has given Botswana a $145.5 million loan to build water projects after it suffered a severe El Nino-induced drought in the past two years, Finance Minister Kenneth Matambo said on Thursday.
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Africa lags in ICT, not ready for 4th Industrial Revolution- report
Cape Town - African countries are not equipped to transition to a Fourth Industrial Revolution economy and even the most tech-savvy countries on the continent, such as South Africa, lags developed countries.
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Analysis shows elephants rapidly declining in Africa
Africa’s elephant population has fallen by a massive 30% since 2007. A comprehensive country-by-country analysis examines the substantial differences in elephant decline in the 10 major safari countries.
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Power-starved Africa develops appetite for coal, dismisses environmental concerns in West
Tanzania, with potential reserves of 5 billion tons of coal, is planning its first coal-fired power plant. Kenya wants to build for its own coal-powered plant, while Ghana and Nigeria are eyeing expanded
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Northwest Botswana shudders during 6.5 magnitude earthquake
JOHANNESBURG South Africa (Xinhua) -- A 6.5 magnitude earthquake was registered in the of Botswana capital Gaborone at 7:40 p.m. on Monday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake struck
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Namibia: Botswana Tremor Felt in Zambezi Region
PANIC and fear gripped the Zambezi region after people felt the tremor from the earthquake that hit Botswana at around 19h40 on Monday night. Official reports stated that the earthquake with a magnitude