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        <description><![CDATA[What started as a night of drinking and laughter among friends ended in bloodshed after a 27-year-old man was allegedly killed for disturbing his companions in Ramotswa.Two men, ag...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[​​​​​​​Treehaus Institute and Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership: Shaping the Future of Sustainable Leadership in Africa]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ministers frustrate Dr Dikoloti’s FMD fight]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As the country grapples with the fight against the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), some cabinet ministers are allegedly frustrating these efforts by failing to follow the set protoco...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Prof. Akin Akinpelu Begins Service as AU Agenda 2063 Ambassador for Political Affairs in Africa]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Professor Akin Akinpelu has officially assumed responsibilities as an Ambassador of the African Union Agenda 2063 Ambassadorial Assembly, with a mandate focused on advancing politi...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Bank Gaborone announced today that Olebile Makhupe will step down from her role as Managing Director of the Bank to pursue other strategic interests and priorities. Her resignation...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[First Motswana enrolled on the African Court Human Rights roster]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Human Rights scholar and University of Botswana (UB) Law Lecturer, Dr Onthatile Moeti, has become the first Motswana to be enrolled as Legal Counsel on the Roster of the African Co...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[From Global Training to Local Impact: How St. George’s University Is Helping Power Botswana’s Healthcare Workforce]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Botswana, access to quality healthcare has long been recognized not just as a public service, but as a national priority. Over the years, the country has made significant invest...]]></description>
        <author>Potlako Bogatsu</author>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Whispers of a &#39;cult-like&#39; working environment, alleged dismissals linked to pregnancy outside marriage, and claims of interference in employees’ love lives have now pulled...]]></description>
        <author>Onneile Setlalekgosi-Ramasilo</author>
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        <description><![CDATA[From age one, Gontse Modise, 29, grew up at the Children’s Village in Francistown surrounded by other children, caregivers and a structure.Yet behind the routines of institutional...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The battle for the lucrative P1billion GEMVAS scheme]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Tensions have escalated between the government and the National Amalgamated, Local, Central Government and Parastatal Workers Union (NALCGPWU), regarding the Government Employees M...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[No missing maize in P1.7m BAMB deal]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Kwenantle Farms has moved to swiftly clarify allegations surrounding a P1.7 million maize transaction involving the Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board, insisting that the produc...]]></description>
        <author>Potlako Bogatsu</author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 09:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Factional fights threaten BDP Youth Pitso]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Instability continues to haunt the opposition Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) as the party now finds itself having to deal with internal fights over the youth Pitso, which is sched...]]></description>
        <author>Nicholas Mokwena</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 13:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OP challenged to swiftly fire non-performers]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Minister of Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Ketlhalefile Motshegwa, has called on President Duma Boko to swiftly act on the deployment of executive management within the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 10:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[For many Batswana, falling sick has become more frightening than ever before. Across villages and cities, patients are no longer battling illness, but also the painful reality of e...]]></description>
        <author>Onneile Setlalekgosi-Ramasilo</author>
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        <description><![CDATA[A 36-year-old woman is recovering in hospital after she was allegedly raped by a stranger while returning from a wedding at Galekgatshwana settlement near Gakuto on Saturday evenin...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[An ugly scene unfolded at the Kanye Magistrate’s Court last week after an inmate allegedly insulted and threatened a police prosecutor inside the court premises.  The incident, whi...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Water crisis hits women and girls hardest]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Minister for International Relations, Dr Phenyo Butale says the continent&#39;s water and sanitation crisis is not just an infrastructure problem, but a gender crisis.Speaking...]]></description>
        <author>Oteng Setshwaelo</author>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Botswana Nurses Union (BONU) has raised alarm over the growing number of unemployed nurses and midwives in Botswana, saying the shortage of staff in hospitals and clinics conti...]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Unsafe abortions are increasingly becoming a public concern in Botswana as women continue to lose their lives in silence.Meanwhile, abandoned fetuses and newborn babies are discove...]]></description>
        <author>Onneile Setlalekgosi-Ramasilo</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 09:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Botswana Railways haunted by operational crisis]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Cash-strapped Botswana Railways (BR) has failed to make profits over the year, with operating costs hitting over P250 million between financial years 2021/22 and 2024/25.The BR was...]]></description>
        <author>Nicholas Mokwena</author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 14:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[FMD spread paralyzes beef industry]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak continues to disrupt livestock farming operations across the country, with fresh suspected cases reported in the Southern Districts and mo...]]></description>
        <author>Onneile Setlalekgosi-Ramasilo</author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 13:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[‘36.6% of Batswana actively engaged in gambling’]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Botswana is now facing a troubling social phenomenon that underscores the deepening financial distress among its people.According to Moruntshi Kemorwale, Acting Chief Executive Off...]]></description>
        <author>Oteng Setshwaelo</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 09:31:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Accommodation crisis leaves students in limbo]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Fears of financial strain, disrupted academic life, and displacement are overshadowing campus life at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) as stu...]]></description>
        <author>Theo Mailakgotla</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 14:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[DISGRACED]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A Senior Police Officer has been suspended over missing exhibits linked to the case of slain police officer, Constable Focus Isaiah.The officer in question is none other than the S...]]></description>
        <author>Onneile Setlalekgosi-Ramasilo</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 13:49:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[SURVIVAL MODE]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sex workers across Botswana are increasingly turning to traditional herbs and home remedies to treat sexually transmitted infections (STIs) as shortages of medicines and condoms co...]]></description>
        <author>Onneile Setlalekgosi-Ramasilo</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 12:29:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Kasane pharmacist scammed P134 000]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Scammers continue to prey on unsuspecting Batswana, leaving many financially ruined and emotionally shattered, despite repeated warnings from the police, banks, mobile money operat...]]></description>
        <author>Onneile Setlalekgosi-Ramasilo</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 09:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tensions threaten country’s economic prosperity]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Anticipating and pre-empting security risks, mitigating their impact or probability of occurrence, is a rational strategic endeavour.It has since emerged that while the dust was ab...]]></description>
        <author>Nicholas Mokwena</author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Botswana Red Cross  celebrates 58 Years of humanitarian service]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Botswana Red Cross Society commemorated World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day with renewed calls for unity, compassion, and collective humanitarian action, as leaders reflected...]]></description>
        <author>Potlako Bogatsu</author>
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        <title><![CDATA[BDP must own up to governance failures- BRP]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[After nearly 60 years in power, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), cannot escape political responsibility for the governance environment under which the alleged failures exposed...]]></description>
        <author>Nicholas Mokwena</author>
        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 12:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Botswana’s Wings for Life World Run Sees Strong Growth in Second Edition]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[GABORONE, Botswana — Botswana’s edition of the global Wings for Life World Run recorded significant growth in 2026, with 450 participants gathering at Royal Aria Stadium on Sunday,...]]></description>
        <author>Pako Lesejane</author>
        <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 14:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Festus Mogae - a great state servant]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[President Festus Gontebanye Mogae has left us, and with him goes a presence that deeply marked my life. He leaves after a long existence, rich in teachings, wisdom and values that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 08:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[BOKO AGAINST THE WALL]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Botswana Federation of Public, Private and Parastatal Sector Unions (BOFEPUSU) has called for the immediate publication of the Forensic Audit report, arguing that withholding i...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 16:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[BOILING POINT]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Health Care Assistants (HCAs) locked in a long running dispute with the Ministry of Health over salary progression from B2 to C2 have formally notified the government of a petition...]]></description>
        <author>Onneile Setlalekgosi-Ramasilo</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Investor, MPs clash over P30m project]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Tension is brewing between the Bangwaketse community leadership and Bathoen II Trust board of trustees over a proposed investment near Mmakgodumo Dam, as ex officio Members of Par...]]></description>
        <author>Onneile Setlalekgosi-Ramasilo</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 14:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[LASTING LEGACY]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As the blue, black, and white flags fly at half-mast across the country, the community of People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in Botswana have joined the nation in mourning the passing...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 12:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[BIZARRE]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Some residents of Mabalane village say they are living in despair as water from underground, mixed with traces of oil-like substances, continues to ooze, damaging homes, attractin...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 12:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Botswana bids farewell to Dr Mogae]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The death of Festus Gontebanye Mogae has brought Botswana into a deep national introspection not only on the life of a former President, but on the character of a leader whose quie...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 10:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[From torment to timber]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While many pensioners rely only on the government old age allowance to survive, one elderly man from Mochudi has carved a different path for himself through woodwork inspired by wh...]]></description>
        <author>Onneile Setlalekgosi-Ramasilo</author>
        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 10:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The second coming of Guma]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Political heavyweight, businessman-cum-politician Samson Moyo Guma has already set tongues wagging within the opposition Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) concerning his membership r...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 15:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[India–Africa Forum Summit builds momentum, Botswana joins strategic partnership]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[India has confirmed preparations for the Fourth India–Africa Forum Summit (IAFS-IV), positioning it as a landmark in advancing South–South cooperation and consolidating achievement...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 14:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rabies crisis grips Maun]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Maun is battling a rabies outbreak that has claimed four young lives in just four months, with 137 dog bites reported and even livestock now infected.Deputy Council Secretary for P...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 10:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
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