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A substantial portion of these funds is allegedly linked to organised wildlife trafficking, particularly rhino horn smuggling.Experts warn that this financial haemorrhaging is not only undermining Botswana’s ability to protect its wildlife but is...

A budget of $638 million has been allocated for this project. The key areas that the SLL will focus on include improving healthcare workforce, refining diagnostics and vaccines, and partnerships to support primary healthcare.The objectives of SLLs...

This will complement efforts to ensure that most African communities and households have access to affordable and quality nutrient dense food. Some buoyant development experts insist that Africa has the potential to feed itself and be a global food...

Coming from sub-Saharan Africa, a region of Africa still besieged by political corruption, unemployment, poor water and sanitation services and general low-level quality infrastructure and policies that end up on paper, I can assert that Africa still...

The funding is for a soil health programme that will be rolled out across Africa over the next three years.The programme is expected to benefit all AU member states in the backdrop of growing food insecurity in the region and declining agriculture...

An essential and precious resource, there has never been more need to conserve water and protect resources, amidst growing threats of climate change, particularly for landlocked, semi-arid countries such as Botswana. Growing evidence also indicates...

The European Union (EU) has vowed to support the African Union (AU) in its ambitious goal to produce 60% of vaccines in Africa by 2040. The European Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutti Urpilainen, says that following lessons from the...

In past years, Van Rensburg  has been a prolific contributor to Mmegi and perhaps the only one who has familiarised himself with successive National Development Plans. But with no journalistic qualifications to justify his being registered as a...