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Ernest Moloi
  • Garba of Gujarat’ achieves UNESCO’s inscription at ongoing 18.COM in Kasane

    ‘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...

  • 18.COM approves 6 Elements for Urgent Safeguarding

    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...

  • Meeting Ukraine’s President, Volodomyr Zelensky

    It’s a Tuesday, the 14th of November 2023. Kyiv, the capital city of besieged Ukraine, is cold wet with a drizzle – a good omen for a Motswana journalist about to encounter the President of this bold and daring country! The horror of war is...

  • “Russian Language in Africa: The Way of Friendship and Cooperation”

    Do you wish to learn Russian language – for business or leisure?Well, then the Centre of Additional Professional Education “Alpha-Dialogue,” supported by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation has the perfect opportunity for you.It...

  • Ukraine-Africa Summit still on the agenda

    Ukraine has not abandoned the idea of a Ukraine-Africa summit, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told a delegation of visiting African journalists mid November in Kyiv.“It is still on our agenda. We are working on it. I do believe we are working on...

  • UNESCO splashes over P1 million on Seperu Folkdance

    Botswana will host the 18th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage from 3rd to 9th December 2023 in Kasane.This presents the Chobe District a rare opportunity to showcase its Seperu...

  • Ukraine to open embassy in Gaborone, Botswana ‘soon’

    Ukraine plans to “soon”, open an embassy in Gaborone, Botswana, as part of its efforts to build “strategic partnership” with African states and bolster political dialogue.This was revealed by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in his...

  • Ukraine hosts Grain for Africa Summit end of November

    Kyiv, Ukraine - Ukraine will host this year’s ‘Grain for Africa Summit’ at the end of this month in efforts to promote food security, a spokesperson of the Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oleg Nikolenko has saidThe programme – an...

  • Motswana in war zone, forced into bullet-proof vest, helmet

    The day is overcast with a drizzle that renders autumn cold and bitter. One just wonders what December winter will be like. It's the 11th November 2023. At 0719 we leave Airport Hotel Recepja in Warsaw, Poland, on a bus for the 800 km drive to...

  • Ukraine’s Volodymr Zelensky ready to visit Africa

    Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky stands ready to visit any country in the African continent to expand the horizons of friendship and will gladly welcome a meeting with the African Union in efforts to “attain peace in our soil”.Zelensky was...

  • OPINION: Is the Media complicit in the subversion of democracy?

    This question was posed by the President of the Umbrella for Democratic Change Advocate Duma Boko Monday this week during a Press conference at Cresta Hotel in Gaborone. My take is that this is an indictment on the Media. It’s a rude awakening for...

  • First-ever Ukraine-Africa Summit planned for this year

    War-torn Ukraine plans to hold the first Ukraine-Africa Summit this year in addition to establishing new embassies in different parts of the continent, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has told African leadersSpeaking May 25th on Africa Day...

  • Ukraine confident of military victory over Russia

    Spurred by support from the United States and its NATO satellites, Ukraine is confident that it will inflict a strategic defeat on Russia in the battlefield, a prospect Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has described as “extremely...

  • Africa among the poles of the emerging multipolar world

    At least 22 African heads of state and presidents were expected to attend the second Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia from July 27th to 28th 2023.A contingent of African Press is already in the beautiful city of St. Petersburg having...

  • ECOWAS on a self-destruction mission

    At the time of writing this piece late Monday this week, reports trickling in from Nigeria suggested that the Junta leaders in Niger were now ready and willing to meet President Bola Tinubu’s delegation.We will all recall that Tinubu is the...

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