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The United Nations General Assembly is set to vote once again this year on the resolution titled "Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Embargo Imposed by the United States of America Against Cuba."For more than three decades,...

Lately, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley never fail to tug at many people’s heartstrings.In the pantheon of great statesmen and diplomats, they are just as outstanding as Russia’s Foreign...

On July 26, 1953, a group of young Cubans led by Fidel Castro launched daring assaults on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Barracks in Bayamo.Though the military objective failed, the action ignited Cuba’s...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sahrawi Democratic Republic, Mohamed Yeslem Beisat, visited Botswana from 2–3 July 2026 as a Special Envoy of President Brahim Ghali.His mission was to deliver a letter from President Ghali to Botswana’s...

The nation is currently hanging by a thread, barely surviving, health-wise, that is! Repeated calls for a swift intervention to calm the tide of death in hospitals and clinics across the country only excite the wrath of authorities.Desperation is...

A consignment of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs worth P14 million from the Government of India is expected to arrive in Botswana this month, India’s High Commissioner Bharath Kumar Kuthati has confirmed.“The medicine order has been placed and is...

Nineteen Cuban Medical Specialists deployed in Gaborone joined Ambassador Antonio Luis Pubillones Izaguirre on Friday evening to sign the Document denouncing the US economic blockade against the socialist island nation. Background: U.S. Embargo and...

Well, at long last, the cookie has popped out of the jar! It’s clear that ever since that fateful day when he dressed down the men and women of the Noble Profession, President Duma Boko is no longer interested in addressing the nation via the...

As Botswana embarks on its Constitutional Review process, the question of whether the death penalty aligns with fundamental rights has emerged as a contentious issue.While public opinion remains strongly in favour of capital punishment, legal experts...

President Advocate Duma Boko comes across as a deeply hurt person. He is an angry man, very angry, despite his claim that he’s chosen to be a ‘wounded healer’. Addressing a press conference recently, the President laid bare his soul in a...

Africa’s darling son, Captain Ibrahim Traore, 37, the Pan Africanist President of Burkina Faso in west Africa, could visit Botswana anytime.President Advocate Duma Boko told a kgotla meeting in Tlokweng Tuesday afternoon, that a delegation from...

In three years’ time, the Ostrich industry should be contributing meaningfully to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a top Government official has promised.Assistant Minister of Agriculture, Dr Edwin Dikoloti gave the Executive of...

A fierce campaign championed by the United States against the Cuban cooperation with the world, especially against the Medical brigades, is well underway.And, as with what’s become commonly known as ‘Trump tariffs’, if developing countries of...

Finally, it has been done!Botswana has signed the Agreement Amending the SADC Treaty to recognise SADC Parliament as one of the SADC institutions.A visibly elated President Advocate Duma Boko – flanked on either side by his Minister for State...

There’s a cautious-optimism in the air that the Zionist project (the state of Israel) has reached its dead-end!And the vigil for the ‘Fallen Empire’ is about to begin, as martyrs across North Africa (so-called Middle East) brace themselves for...