Cyclists battle hostility in many cities worldwide, but in Gaborone, Botswana, the social stigma around cycling has made the streets “more dangerous than lions”. “I will hit you with this car,” Mpaphi ...

Botswanan students take part in a game of using chopsticks during a Chinese culture show in Gaborone, Botswana, on July 29, 2025. A Chinese culture show was performed on Tuesday at a secondary school ...

A vervet monkey is seen at the Gaborone Game Reserve in Gaborone, capital of Botswana, Jan. 7, 2022. Gaborone Game Reserve was established in 1988 to give the public an opportunity to view Botswana's ...

African cities can be discouraging. Many are surrounded by skirts of shantytowns—or informal suburbs, as they are charitably described. A visitor to Cape Town in South Africa, for example, must drive ...

When Botswana hosts the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone this May, the nation will not merely be staging a global sporting spectacle, but opening a new chapter in sport development, tourism growth ...

The recent flooding disaster left Gaborone, Botswana, in a dire state, and this video captures a glimpse of it. "Never seen it this bad before," the filmer, Lara, wrote online. The area shown in this ...

The recent move by Malak Macheng to the African Regional Training Centre (ARTC) in Tunisia has been hailed as a milestone ...

More than 1,000 health experts, including African Cabinet ministers, are in Botswana for the World Health Organization Regional Committee for Africa meeting to discuss health challenges facing the ...

Botswana's diamond stockpile has nearly doubled, raising concerns about economic growth as weak prices and competition from ...