This situation is terrible for people living with chronic illnesses such as diabetes, HIV, hypertension and others, as the long-running shortage of drugs in public hospitals and clinics has forced them into an impossible choice: Buy your own or risk...
One of the reasons many politicians in Africa are resisting a fast-tracked transition from fossil fuels is because of the impact this will have on jobs and the associated social welfare, community economy and indicators such as poverty, disease,...
They may call each other ‘brothers’ and pass ‘fraternal greetings’ at every opportunity.And indeed they are. But African countries are also each other’s rivals for foreign investor attention, the kind that brings in capital, skills...
Oarabile*, a gay man in his early 20s never missed church as a child. “Once I started opening up about my sexuality, people started looking at me differently. I could see the disgust in their faces. My parents started being ashamed of me. They...
In Botswana, many girls and young women find themselves abandoned during pregnancy and after birth by their partners, left to raise their children alone. Due to poverty, young people find themselves in abusive relationships, dating sugar daddies...
At the recent global COP27 climate summit in Egypt, the EU reportedly drew a line in the desert sands.The world’s most influential body politic threatened to walk out of the Egypt talks in frustration over weak climate commitments, including...
Implementation challenges have dogged government for decades, costing the country billions of Pula in direct and opportunity costs, but more importantly denying citizens of services and forestalling their economic aspirations.At its heart, poor...
The Minister of Health (MoH) Edwin Dikoloti announced that Botswana has approved the use of injectable anti-retroviral drugs to improve adherence to HIV treatment, becoming just the second country in Africa to do so. Taking a pill every day at a...
United Nations Climate Change High-Level Champion's special advisor, Bogolo Kenewendo, reports that at the Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt climate change summit, a trend was seen amongst some of the activists.“There is actually a badge that has been...
Experts advise that even though nearly everyone is going through a lot, it is important to talk out our problems than bottling them in. Keeping one’s troubles to oneself often results in individuals resorting to drug and alcohol abuse or even...
At the time of writing, Environment and Tourism minister, Philda Kereng and her team would have been wrapping up their debates at the Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species (CITES) and preparing to pack their bags to return...
Reporters can attest to this; you never forget your first byline in the newspaper. Even to this day, I still love seeing my byline in the newspaper. My first article in the newspaper was a travelogue. I had gruelled my body by walking about 120km in...
In 2007, Mpolokeng Setswammung founded The Voice of a Child Organisation in Oodi to remove children from the streets by engaging them in activities that would help shape their behaviour and mentor them into responsible youth.The Voice of a Child...
“We are opposed to this proposal and we feel that there’s no need to waste any more time on this debate because there’s no consensus emerging.”The Senegalese representative at CITES’ Conference of Parties (CoP) taking place until November...
By early morning this past Saturday, the scores of Kimberley Process delegates still holed up at the Gaborone International Convention Centre (GICC) would have been in disbelief at how impossible it can become to agree on a few lines of...
Rays of hope for Botswana and her elephant range neighbours have emerged ahead of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Conference of Parties (CoP) meeting in Panama, where several West African countries are pushing for...
I first read a copy of Mmegi at the Serowe Library. That is where my love for newspapers was nurtured. As a kid the library was initially my excuse for arriving home late from the playground. But in the beginning it was just a pretext to avoid the...
According to official statistics from the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, in 2021 Botswana was the world’s leading rough diamond producer by value, with output measured at $4.7 billion (P63 billion), comfortably ahead of rivals such as...
CITES is an international body binding 184 states to agreements on the trade and protection of endangered plants and animals.The upcoming Conference of Parties (CoP) is CITES’ highest decision-making meeting held every three years where countries...
A Plenary meeting of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) will be held in Botswana from November 1st to November 4th, 2022, amid growing concern about the scheme's ineptitude to address the ever-evolving forms of conflict in...
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