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 announced at the end of 2020 that renewable energy would account for at least 15% of the country’s energy mix by 2030, with …
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 Tshekedi Khama said he had not been officially informed of the planned debate in the EU Parliament to …
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 and infrastructure development, APA learnt here Thursday. According to a report on the Consultancy to Identify Forest Areas in Communal areas …
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 Master Plan for the integrated development of Cross-Border Conservation Area Kavango and Zambezi (KAZA ATFC), Angop has …
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 at the signing ceremony, Botswana’s Minister of Health, Dorcas Makgato said “the overall goals of …
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 to a press statement issued yesterday by the Executive Secretary of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), Ms Johannah-Joy Phumaphi, …
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 project officer Keddy Molefi said the drought indicator species – the Red-billed Qualea – recorded an 80-percent decrease …
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 participatory, multi-stakeholder and cross-scalar contextual analysis that considers a wide range of hazards, as well as people’s capacities and aspirations, should become …
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 set of indicators, the degree to which these proposed indicators draw on past work is unclear. This paper mines relevant past work …
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 the capital Gaborone that structures such as personnel, modalities and how money should be disbursed through which entities. He said stakeholders at the recent …
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 to agriculture and manufacturing sectors to effectively deal with oil and mineral price drops. During discussions …
A new report has debunked the argument that the illegal wildlife trade in East Africa significantly funds terrorism - an exaggeration used to justify the militarization of anti-poaching squads and the persecution of tribal subsistence hunters. The report titled "An Illusion of Complicity: Terrorism and the Illegal Ivory Trade in …
Botswana and Namibia are likely to be exposed to ‘extreme water stress’ by 2040, threatening national security, according to a report issued on Monday by the World Resources Institute (WRI). WRI scored future water stress—a measure of population and surface water depletion—in 167 countries using their Aqueduct analysis. The report …
Hukuntsi — Of Botswana's over 600 species of birds, about 30 face extinction due to poisoning. The director of BirdLife Botswana, Dr Kabelo Senyatso made the revelation at an inception workshop for a project funded by the European Union Non State Actors (EUNSA) and the government in Hukuntsi on recently. …
Luanda — Representatives of member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) outlined on Wednesday to Friday in Johannesburg, South Africa, strategies to combat poaching, until 2020. The meeting allowed the approval of the strategy and law enforcement and in the fight against poaching in the region, said the …
Botswana’s Water Utilities Corporation on Thursday conceded that the shortage of water in country has gone from bad to worse. In a statement released on Thursday, the corporation said some parts of the country may experience low pressure or no water supply at all and pleaded with citizens to be …
Maun — The three-year project for enhancing national forestry monitoring system for the promotion of natural resources management is said to be on track. The project is implemented by Japan International Cooperation Agency in collaboration with Botswana government and it started in July 2013 and expected to be completed in …
THE number of people facing food shortage in Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) bloc has gone up by 13 per cent from 24.28 million in 2013/14 to 27.41 million this year. SADC Secretariat’s Director of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mrs Margaret Nyirenda, told Southern Africa Documentation and Research Centre …
Power cuts in 15 Sub-Saharan African countries could become an "exception" rather than a norm in 10 years time, with private capital expected to play an increasingly bigger role, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said in a survey on Thursday. Africa's installed power generation capacity is expected to quadruple to 380 gigawatts (GW) …
SOUTHERN African Development Community (SADC) member states have recorded a decline in new HIV infections which now stands at 26 per cent on average. Directorate of Social and Human Development and Special Programmes at the SADC secretariat Stephen Sianga said there was a decline in new HIV infections with 26 …
Molepolole — Rivers in and around Gaborone are under pressure as illegal sand mining increases. It was established during a stakeholder consultative meeting in Metsimotlhabe that lack of relevant laws to guide sand mining hindered efforts to fight illegal sand mining. The Mogoditshane-Thamaga sub-district commissioner, Mr Mothibi Monyakeng said despite …
