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With the UN Climate Summit barely two weeks away, Africa is abuzz with its biggest and most colorful road show ever to highlight the continent’s climate change woes: the ‘Trans African Caravan of Hope.’
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Gaborone -
The Bank of Botswana announced that it is leaving its benchmark rate unchanged at 9.5 percent for the fifth straight meeting. The African central bank noted that the inflation rate would drop between three and six percent next year.
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Beitbridge -
A herd of stray elephants have destroyed fences and crops at the Shashe irrigation scheme close to the borders of Botswana and South Africa in Zimbabwe.
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Some NGOs genuinely contribute to enhancing welfare, to the mitigation of hunger, the furtherance of human and civil rights, or the curbing of disease. Others are ideologically biased, religiously-committed and, often, at the service of special interests.
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New York -
The United Nations has published the Economic Development in Africa Report 2011 in which it urges African nations to step up its manufacturing sector in order to reduce widespread poverty on the continent.
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National Geographic Society's explorers-in-residence believe lions could become extinct in 15 years. Award-winning film-makers and conservationists Beverly and Dereck Joubert have been studying threatened big cats in Africa for 30 years.
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Toronto -
Thousands discovered the culture and heritage of Africa at the 23rd annual Afrofest in Toronto. The sights, sounds, cuisine and upbeat attitudes of the African continent covered the landscape of Queen's Park.
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Pretoria -
US First Lady Michelle Obama has wrapped up her week-long southern African tour getting attention from the students, the media and upwardly mobile young women. Obama won hearts for her husband and America, even being hailed as “Queen of Africa”.
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The government of Botswana has approved a diamond mine in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, ancestral lands of the Kalahari Bushmen.
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Some politicians in Botswana called on the southern African country to consider legalising prostitution to fight against HIV.
Botswana is said to have a high prevalence of HIV, and equally known for being proactive in the campaign against HIV/Aids.
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