Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) is at loggerheads as the two warring factions start tearing the party asunder in the build-up to the National Elective Congress, where Samson Guma is expected to face-off with Master Goya for the presidency.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with Ministry of Finance, Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) and Botswana Council of Non-Governmental Organizations (BOCONGO) have this week trained journalists in efforts to advance knowledge and understanding of the set 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
The United States through its State Department’s annual report on global religious freedoms is keeping tabs on Botswana’s decision to arrest of controversial pastor Thuso Tiego by the police.
Botswana recorded a surge in suppression of freedom of expression as well as increasing rates of gender-based violence at the height of Covid-19, Amnesty
Botswana has been downgraded from ‘narrowed’ to ‘obstructed’ in a new report by the CIVICUS Monitor, a global research collaboration that rates and tracks fundamental freedoms in 197 countries and territories. Over the years, Botswana has been known as a beacon of democracy, but could the CIVICUS report spell a change in ethos in Botswana?