2023-11-21 21:10:15 The increase from 32 to 48 teams for the 2026 World Cup simplifies the qualification method for African teams. The confederation saw its number of qualified selections increase from 5 to 9. Gone are the three-phase qualifiers (round-trip preliminary round between the weakest nations, group stage, play-offs), make way for a more readable … Read more
2023-07-01 16:13:00 (Ecofin Agency) – Botswana supplies 70% of the rough diamonds produced by De Beers. For months, his government and the group of South African origin have been negotiating to renew their partnership which expired yesterday June 30, 2023. Gaborone notably demanded a greater share of the profits. The government of Botswana and the … Read more
2023-06-15 12:29:00 (Ecofin Agency) – Paratus wants to improve its position in the broadband segment of the Botswana telecom market where it competes with Orange, Mascom and BTC. To this end, the company is increasing its investments in the reinforcement of its infrastructure. Broadband connectivity provider Paratus Botswana, a subsidiary of Paratus Africa Group, said … Read more
2023-05-12 05:18:19 MONACO – A Botswana athlete facing a three-year doping ban is set to sell his Olympic medal. Nigel Ames, who won silver in the men’s 800m at the 2012 London Olympics, sold his medal to help his family’s financial difficulties. Botswana’s first Olympic medalist, the Ames Athletics Integrity Unit, was caught up in … Read more
A professional hunter has killed Botswana’s largest tusker elephant after paying $50,000 to participate in a hunt. The story was reported this week by the British newspaper Daily Mailwho reported that Leon Kachelhoffer claimed to have killed the animal, which had about 91 kg of ivory in its tusks.. (Also read: Debanhi Escobar: father of … Read more
Published on : 23/01/2022 – 00:13 Since this Saturday, January 22, the countries of southern Africa are no longer on the red list linked to Covid 19 in France, they go into the orange category. This concerns South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. At the end of November, flights from … Read more