Machaba Safaris opens luxury camp in Botswana’s Okavango Delta
African-based safari operator Machaba Safaris opened Kiri Camp, a luxury tented camp in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, in June. With just…
Great Plains opens safari camp in Botswana’s Selinda Reserve
Great Plains has opened the six-bedroom Okavango Explorers Camp in the roughly 400-acre private Selinda Reserve in northern Botswana. Located…
Three more diamond cutters, polishers come to town
The Government has revealed three more diamond cutting and polishing companies will set up businesses locally before the end of…
Botswana: First ever elephant wide aerial survey
A group has launched a more than $3 million dollar exercise that uses Artificial Intelligence technology to provide data to…
Kavango Resources Study of Ore Target in Botswana Confirms Economic Viability
Kavango Resources PLC said Friday that an independent report on its iron oxide copper-gold, or IOCG, target in Botswana confirmed…
Botswana Diamonds acquires additional stake in Botswana JV
Dual-listed Botswana Diamonds (BOD) has acquired an additional stake in the prospective Maibwe joint venture (JV) in Botswana. Siseko Minerals…
Power Metals sees potential at new Botswana prospecting licence area
AIM-listed Power Metal Resources has identified extensive gold workings and two large fines dumps at the newly granted prospecting licence…
Get out of my river! Furious hippo attacks three terrified lions after spotting them swimming across its territory in Botswana
Video shows the three lions attempting to cross Selinda Spillway in Botswana But the trio were attacked by an angry…
Kavango Identifies Three New Exploration Targets in Botswana
Kavango Resources PLC said Monday that it has identified a cluster of three electromagnetic conductors at the northern section of…
Kavango Resources completes Ditau drill programme
“These are complex targets, in an area where there was almost no prior geological data” Kavango Resources PLC (LSE:KAV, OTC:KVGOF)…
Top predators could ‘trap’ themselves trying to adapt to climate change, study shows
As climate change alters environments across the globe, scientists have discovered that in response, many species are shifting the timing…
SADC to increase renewable energy generation to reduce carbon emissions
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is developing the Regional Gas Masterplan to enable the utilisation of the abundant gas…
Orapa Game Park – a diamond in the wild
Developed from a core conservation area on a degraded cattle grazing zone in 1985, Orapa Game Park in the country’s…
Trial planting of Chinese water-saving, drought-resistant rice in Botswana successful
(ECNS) — Botswana held “Chinese Rice Harvest Day” on Monday to celebrate the successful trial planting of water-saving and drought-resistant…
Why This Great African Destination Is The Perfect Place For A Safari
Safari is a Swahili word that means “journey” or “expedition.” It comes from the Arabic word safar meaning “to travel.” Swahili is the…
A different perspective on safaris from Zambezi Queen
River cruises have been a popular way to explore Europe from a different angle for quite some time, but it’s…
Botswana still country of painful extremes – UN
The level of inequality and poverty in Botswana may be worse than initially assumed by the country’s scholars and development…
Satellite Collars To Aid Address Human-Wildlife Conflict
As part of Okavango Wilderness Safaris’ impact strategy to help alleviate the human-wildlife conflict in its areas of operation, the…
Cobre to take full ownership of Botswana-focused explorer Kalahari Metals
Kalahari Metals has interests in 12 exploration licences in the Kalahari Copper Belt of Botswana Cobre, an Australian mineral exploration…
Arc Minerals starts two-part exploration programme in Botswana
London-listed Arc Minerals has started a maiden exploration programme at the prospective Virgo copper/goldproject, in Botswana. The first step of the programme involves soil…
Top producer Russia thwarts move to redefine ‘conflict diamonds’
JOHANNESBURG, June 16 (Reuters) – Russia, supported by Belarus, Central African Republic, Kyrgyzstan and Mali, has torpedoed a Western-backed proposal…
Botswana raises repo rate by 50 basis points to 2.15 pc
GABORONE, June 17 (Xinhua) — Bank of Botswana (BoB)’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to increase the monetary policy rate,…
Hundreds of Botswana nurses apply to work overseas
An undisclosed number of Batswana nurses, running into hundreds, have reportedly put in applications to work in the United Kingdom.…
Amanda Seyfried wears Almasika for “Black is Brilliant” with Rad and De Beers Group at the 2022 Time100 gala
NEW YORK, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Amanda Seyfried wore an Almasika necklace designed by Catherine Sarr featuring ethically and sustainably sourced natural…
About 20% of Botswana workers living in poverty
The figure wouldn’t have changed much but in 2019, some 20% of the employed population in Botswana was living below…
Team Botswana brings home 7 medals
The CAA Africa Senior Athletics Championships came to a resounding end with Botswana securing seven medals in the competition. The…