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Given Botswana’s victory in the men's 4x400 metres at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, the president of the Southern African country, Duma Boko, has designated September 29th as a public holiday to commemorate...

Botswanan authorities said on Monday that at least nine people were confirmed dead, six of whom were minors, following widespread flooding.

Voters in Botswana have rejected the country’s long-serving governing party in a result that marks a political earthquake in the diamond-rich southern African nation. The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) - in power since...

Botswana votes in a national election this week that will decide if the ruling party extends a 58-year stretch in power in a southern African country that is a leading diamond producer and often held up as one of the mos...

Police and protesters clashed outside Botswana's National Assembly in Gaborone as members of parliament voted on a bill that would have given the president sweeping powers to appoint civil servants holding key positions.

Investigators are scouring the site of a tragic bus accident in South Africa, where a bus carrying pilgrims to an Easter gathering veered off a bridge, resulting in at least 45 fatalities. The only survivor, an 8-year-ol...

The Botswana government on Tuesday dismissed as "outrageous and unfortunate" allegations made by ex-president Ian Khama accusing his successor of undermining democracy in one of Africa's most stable nations.