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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Botswana welcomes EU plan to ban trophy hunting imports
Botswana said on Tuesday that it welcomes the decision by the European Union (EU) Parliament to vote for a ban against hunting trophies entering the bloc.The minister of Environment, Tourism and Wildlife
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Botswana losing forests to human activities, elephants – Report
Botswana lost more than 3,000 hectares of forest between 2001 and 2012 due to elephants, fuel wood harvesting, farming, overharvesting of veld products, overstocking of livestock, drought, mining activities
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Southern Africa: Angola- SADC Approves Kaza-Atfc Integrated Development Master Plan
Luanda — The ministers of Hotels and Tourism of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and the Angolan Secretary of State of the referred sector Alfredo Varo Kaputo, approved on 29 January in Zimbabwe, the
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Botswana, Global Fund sign new grants deal to fight HIV, TB
Botswana and Global Fund on Wednesday signed two new grants totaling $27 million to mark a new phase of partnership, with a focus on preventing, treating and caring for people affected by HIV and tuberculosis.Speaking
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Africa: Malaria Deaths On Decline in African Countries
Africa: South Africa Recognized for Progress in Malaria Fight Statistics indicate that annual malaria deaths in Africa have decreased from an estimated 764,000 in 2000 to 395,000 in 2015. According
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Drought affects bird migration to Botswana – Official
Botswana’s total number of birds recorded in November 2015 is lower than the number recorded in 2014, with a decrease of 32 percent reported due to drought, an official said Wednesday.Birdlife Botswana
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Finding ways together to build resilience: the Vulnerability and Risk Assessment methodology
Reflecting on the voices of people living in difficult and unjust circumstances, government stakeholders and development practitioners from around the globe, the authors propose that conducting a truly
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Measuring transboundary water cooperation: learning from the past to inform the Sustainable Development Goals
Water cooperation has received prominent focus in the post-2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While proposals for measuring water cooperation appear to be converging toward a small
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Botswana readies for global climate change funding
The Botswana government is developing structures to ensure that Batswana benefit from climate funding, Environment, Wildlife and Tourism Minister Tshekedi Khama said Thursday.Khama told journalists in
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African Economic Conference Presents Plans to Fight Deepening Poverty
The 10th African Economic Conference (AEC) has laid emphasis on better application of national tax policies to reduce the income gap between the rich and the poor, and the need to expand economic growth