Botswana takes part in WTO dialogue

Government, civil society, business and media practioners from Botswana will next week join their colleagues from 10 other Southern African countries to participate in a World Trade Organisation (WTO) sub-regional trade dialogue.

The workshop, which is organised in conjunction with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), will take place from October 26-28 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa.

The dialogue will be held under the theme “Current and Future Challenges for the Multilateral Trading System – Perspectives from Southern Africa”.

Editor's Comment
Human rights are sacred

It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...

Have a Story? Send Us a tip
arrow up