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Botswana deeply values Germany as a “close friend and a strategic development partner”, Deputy Permanent Secretary – Bilateral Diplomacy - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Clifford Maribe told guests during the October 3 German Unity Day...

Members of the Botswana Ostrich Farmers Association that gathered last week in Gaborone for their Annual General Meeting (AGM) have resolved to resuscitate the ailing industry by exploiting all available government programmes for commercial and...

Botswana Parliament was on Tuesday plunged in a comedy of errors when Deputy Speaker Pono Moatlhodi had to apologise for an omission he had (in)advertently made earlier on the day!Earlier when announcing the SADC Parliamentary Forum Lobby Team that...

Botswana hit the ground running this month of August 2024 as she chairs the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU)).On Tuesday this week, Botswana’s Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Permanent...

The four-months diplomatic training for journalists hosted by China International Press Communication Centre (CIPCC), ended spectacularly for me on June 30th 2024! On this day the organisers – China Public Diplomacy Association, in collaboration...

The 8th China-Africa Youth Festival ended today with a Dialogue sesion in Yiwu village in the Zhejiang Province of China with a call to hold the next one in Africa.Convening 68 youth from 52 African countries with their counterparts from China, the...

Thousands of nationalities converged here at University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) along Yuhui South Road, Chaoyang, Beijing for the 20th edition of the international youth culture festival. Batswana students studying at UIBE and...

China – a socialist country, glued together by its three Gods, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism – is on a mission to foster a new type of international relations, and build a global community of shared future.Spurred by the Communist Party of...

A few takeaways stand out distinctly from last week’s China’s Lunar New Year (Spring Festival) celebration at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC)!Graced by Botswana’s third President, Festus Mogae, members of the diplomatic...

The scorching sun was sworn on assaulting anything on its path on this Thursday morning the 21st of December, 2023!But not even the intensity of the El-Nino induced drought could deter the resolve of a handful guests that had convened for a special...

BaKgatla baga Kgafela Sovereign, Kgosikgolo Kgafela II, is scheduled to address multitudes of BaKgatla tomorrow in S’fikile, Northwest Province, South Africa. Mothusa Kgosikgolo Bana Sekai told a Kgotla meeting on Thursday (14 December 2023) that...

BaKgatla baga Kgafela Sovereign, Kgosikgolo Kgafela II is scheduled to address multitudes of BaKgatla tomorrow in S’fikile, Northwest Province, South Africa.Mothusa Kgosikgolo Bana Sekai told a Kgotla meeting Thursday (14 December 2023) that this...

The protocol on competition policy seeks to regulate competition within the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to prevent anti-competitive practices to ensure that the projected gains from trade liberalisation are not undermined by these...

‘Garba of Gujarat’ of Gujarat State, India has been inscribed in UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Humanity during the on-going 18th session of the ‘Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the...

Six elements under Urgent Safeguarding List and 56 under Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Humanity have been considered and approved during the ongoing 18th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the 2003 Convention for...