How Can Batswana Be Happy Amidst So Much Sadness?

President Mokgweetsi Masisi PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES
President Mokgweetsi Masisi PIC. THALEFANG CHARLES

Botswana is amongst the top 10 least happiest countries on earth according to the 2019 World Happiness Report published last week. Staff Writer THALEFANG CHARLES identifies factors that make the country unhappy

The annual World Happiness Report is an United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network publication that ranks 156 countries by variables that support well-being, including GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, social freedom, generosity and absence of corruption.

The laidback little nation of about three million people is a sad one according to the report. Batswana are in the sad lot of unhappiest nations alongside people from war torn countries, mean dictatorships and extremely poor.

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