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How Botswana’s Sustainable Natural Diamond Story Sparkled At JCK
Forbes
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Diamond exports provide Botswana's economy with strong supplies of foreign exchange and have helped ... More finance industrial development, improvements in Botswana's infrastructure plus nationwide free education.Natural Diamond Council Various...
Education Revolution: Namibian President declares free university tuition
Sunday Independent
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June 27, 2025
Tswelopele Makoe|Published 6 minutes ago 6min “WE have heard your cries, the fees have fallen,” announced Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. A mere month into her presidency, the first female president of the sub-Saharan nation made waves...
WEF Claims It Will Take 123 More Years To Achieve Full Gender-Parity Globally
Zero Hedge
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It will take 123 years to reach full gender parity globally, according to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Gender Gap Report 2025. While progress has been made since the report started in 2006, Statista's Anna Fleck reports that an analysis of the...
Children’s surgery network expands
MMEGI
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June 27, 2025
The charity, which is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, opened the facility on June 24, five years ahead of its target to install 100 dedicated surgical theatres by 2030. Just two days later, the team will open its 101st operating room in Addis Ababa,...
Children’s surgery charity reaches 100-room milestone
Edinburgh Evening News
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June 26, 2025
Scotland-born charity reaches global goal five years early A world-leading surgical charity is marking a major milestone in its efforts to transform global access to children’s surgery, celebrating the opening of both its 100th and 101st dedicated...
KidsOR Centre to treat 200,000 children annually
Botswana Guardian Sun
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June 27, 2025
Botswana is the recipient of the 100th Kids operating room. The new theatre located at Princess Marina Referral Hospital was officially unveiled on Tuesday this week.The historic event marks a momentous occasion not only in the journey of the......
South Africa takes action against foot and mouth disease with Botswana's vaccine support
IOL
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June 26, 2025
Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has confirmed that South Africa is actively addressing the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) affecting four provinces. On Thursday, Ntshavheni indicated that the Cabinet also welcomed...
Vunani hosts annual Botswana women Awards workshop
MMEGI
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June 26, 2025
Held as a follow-up to the Vunani Annual Botswana Women in Sports Awards in March, the workshop aimed to empower award winners with essential professional development tools. Key focus areas included financial literacy, contract negotiation,...
LEGABIBO Courts UN for Same-Sex Marriages in Botswana
Botswana Gazette
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June 26, 2025
While making a case for transgender and gender non-conforming women as an integral part of its position, LEGABIBO wants the UN Human Rights Committee to urge Botswana to recognise same-sex partnerships through civil unions, domestic partnerships,...
ZCC leader visits Botswana, as infighting threatens to tear the church apart
MMEGI
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June 26, 2025
Bishop Dr Joseph Engenas Lekganyane, the St Engenas ZCC’s leader, and his entourage would not answer questions, despite this reporter staking out the meeting venue at the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs offices in Gaborone. Lekganyane’s...
Artistry, Culture Unite At European Film Fest
Botswana Gazette
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June 25, 2025
With a lineup spanning historical thrillers, animated adventures and local voices, the festival proved once again that cinema is not just entertainment but a mirror, a bridge and a call to imagine better futures GOSEGO MOTSUMI From the opening...
New Partnership Enhances Medical Education Opportunities in Botswana
IT News Africa
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June 25, 2025
St. George’s University (SGU) School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies, has formed a 3-year partnership with Legae Academy, an internationally certified secondary school in Gaborone, Botswana. Legae Academy was founded in 1992 to provide...
Saugerties High School student secures scholarship for cultural exchange in Morocco
Hudson Valley One - New York
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June 25, 2025
Humayun Ayaz with Saugerties High School Spanish teacher Carolyn Munoz. Saugerties High School (SHS) sophomore Humayun Ayaz and founder of the school’s Student International Committee has earned a competitive scholarship to study abroad in...
Phatsima Tuitions is Transforming Academic Lives in Botswana
Botswana Guardian Sun
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June 25, 2025
In 2020, a group of rewriting Form 3 students walked back into Phatsima Tuitions wearing their brand-new senior secondary school uniforms. They weren’t returning for classes, but to say thank you. These were students who had once failed, who had...
“Girl Education Today for Women Empowerment Tomorrow”: Emphasizes Senator Dr. Rasha Kelej on ...
Business Ghana
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Merck Foundation (www.Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany together with First Ladies of Africa who are also their Ambassadors, Ministries of Health, Education, Communication & Gender, mark ‘International Women’s Day...
WILDERNESS INJECTS P4.8 BILLION INTO BOTSWANA ECONOMY, DEEPENS CONSERVATION COMMITMENT
Gabz FM
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June 25, 2025
Article By: Rorisang Mogojwe Eco-tourism operator Wilderness has reaffirmed its commitment to sustainable development, revealing it has injected over P4.8 billion in foreign exchange into Botswana’s economy over the past decade. At a stakeholder...
St. George’s University Partners with Legae Academy to Expand Medical Education Opportunities in Botswana
South Africa Today
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June 24, 2025
Johannesburg, South Africa, 24 June 2025 – St. George’s University (SGU) School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies, has formed a three-year partnership with Legae Academy, an internationally certified secondary school in Gaborone, Botswana. This...
Fewer Babies In Botswana Acquire Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Thanks To Dedicated Push To Eliminate Mother To Child Transmission
MENAFN
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June 24, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) Eliminating mother to child transmission of HIV is possible. And Botswana is celebrating becoming the first country in Africa – and the first country with a high burden of HIV - to be awarded a Gold Tier status by the World...
Barry Hoffner’s journey: from Timbuktu traveler to education changemaker
TravelDailyNews Asia-Pacific
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June 23, 2025
Barry Hoffner turns a birthday trip to Timbuktu into a lifelong mission of education, empowerment, and cross-cultural understanding. At a time when many of us travel in search of comfort or escape, Barry Hoffner travels in pursuit of something...
Belt and Road Image Ambassador Oraya Ailinjinna Meets with Botswana’s FM
Sada Elbalad
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June 23, 2025
Mon 23 Jun 2025 | 04:17 PM This week, via the special arrangement of Dr. Farzam Kamalabadi, known as “Hua Zan” in China, the Presidential Envoy of the Republic of Botswana, the Belt and Road Image Ambassador and Minister of Arts of the China...