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Botswana President Boko pledges to support Malawi’s mining sector
Maravi Express
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July 6, 2025
* Word has been spoken today affirming that which has been spoken before, examples have been enacted * It is now time for transformative action that speaks to the growth of our economies, to the rise of the continent and to the transformation of...
Brave Warriors relocates home matches to Botswana
Windhoek Observer
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Erasmus Shalihaxwe The Namibia Football Association (NFA) has confirmed hat the Brave Warriors will play their upcoming international home matches in Botswana. This comes as Namibia works to upgrade its stadiums to meet international standards....
UN CEDAW Committee Publishes Findings On Afghanistan, Botswana, Chad, Fiji, Ireland, Mexico, San Marino and More
Scoop
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Geneva, 7 July 2025 The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) today issued its findings on Afghanistan, Botswana, Chad, Fiji, Ireland, Mexico, San Marino, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Tuvalu, after reviewing...
Chakwera Bids Farewell to Botswana President, Hails Regional Solidarity Amid Crisis
Nyasa Times
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July 7, 2025
President Lazarus Chakwera has described the State Visit by Botswana President Advocate Duma Gideon Boko as a symbol of deepening regional solidarity, especially at a time Malawi is emerging from a chain of devastating national crises. Speaking...
Africa Needs One Vision—Botswana President Duma Boko Tells Malawi
Nyasa Times
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July 7, 2025
President Duma Gideon Boko of Botswana has called for a united and focused vision for Africa’s development, urging African nations to think deeper and act with purpose to realise the continent’s full potential. Boko and Speaker of Parliament,...
Positioning Botswana for a Digital Transport Future
Botswana Gazette
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July 7, 2025
Botswana can easily become the Airbnb of transport hubs, orchestrating regional mobility digitally rather than building it physically. This is because transport power is no longer geographic but digital, writes DOUGLAS RASBASH* Botswana has long...
Wasteful Malawi lose to Botswana
The Times Group Malawi
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July 7, 2025
In front of tens of thousands of home fans. Before the eyes of senior government officials including Cabinet ministers. In full view of Malawi’s diplomatic partners. And in the presence of President Lazarus Chakwera. The Malawi National Football...
Chakwera hails President Boko for inspiring Malawians
The Maravi Post
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July 7, 2025
By Sellah Singini LILONGWE-(MANA)-President Lazarus Chakwera has hailed President of Botswana, Advocate Duma Gedion Boko for his words of encouragement to Malawians who have gone through a lot in the past five years. Chakwera said this on Monday...
New Air Botswana Board Chair in Cross Border Conflict of Interest
Botswana Gazette
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July 7, 2025
Mozambique has queried the naming of Dane Kondic as Board Chairman of Air Botswana because he holds the same position at Mozambique Airlines GAZETTE REPORTER The newly-appointed Board Chairperson of Air Botswana, Dane Kondic, is facing allegations...
Nigerian travellers pay N274,500 different taxes on each international flight – Findings
Business Hallmark
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July 7, 2025
Air passengers flying out of Nigeria are paying one of the highest amounts in taxes and charges across Africa, with an average cost of $180 (N275,500) per international departure, nearly three times the continental average of $68, according to a...
NICHOLAS SHUBITZ: How Russia wins friends and influences people
BusinessLIVE
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The inaugural Russia-Africa summit in 2019 was a pivotal moment in enhancing educational co-operation, with the number of African students studying in Russia almost doubling to 34,000 by the time the next summit was held in 2023. These numbers...
Botswana President Duma Boko Expected in Malawi for Independence Day Celebrations
Face of Malawi
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July 5, 2025
Published on July 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM by Edgar Naitha 97 words • approx. 1 min read Botswana’s President, Duma Boko, is expected to arrive in Malawi this afternoon for a three-day official visit. According to a statement from Malawi’s Ministry of...
Création Botswana in final chapter celebrating fashion, creativity
MMEGI
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July 7, 2025
Launched in September 2023, Création Botswana is a pioneering fashion entrepreneurship program designed to empower and elevate Botswana's creative industry. In an interview with Arts&Culture, the project manager Nature of the entity, Inger...
Inside Boko’s struggle to dismantle Botswana’s deep state
MMEGI
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July 7, 2025
In political theorem, the deep state refers to a sect of unelected officials that run the government and dictate policy behind the scenes. In this case, the deep state refers to the entrenched, unelected machinery of government that continues to...
Nnadozie backs WAFCON debutants to shine
Punch
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July 9, 2025
Nigeria goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie says the Super Falcons’ younger players are ready to rise to the occasion as the team prepares to face Botswana today (Thursday) in their second Group B match at the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, PUNCH...
Duma Boko ushers in new political era as Botswana’s first opposition president since 1966
The Maravi Post
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July 6, 2025
In a historic political shift, Botswana’s 2024 general election delivered a surprising outcome that reshaped the country’s post-independence political narrative. Despite the departure of both the Botswana Congress Party and the Botswana Patriotic...
Luke-ing the Beast in the Eye, SPECIAL REPORT: “President” Sekeramayi , the coup and Mugabe’s manic phone call to Zuma,
The Zimbabwean
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July 6, 2025
By Luke Tamborinyoka Kasukuwere left Mugabe’s suite around 2am with clear instructions to help mobilise party structures, particularly the youth, to support Sekeramayi for President at the party conference in December 2017. According to...
PAMO 2025: NITC student wins silver for Nigeria in Botswana
The Cable
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July 6, 2025
The management of Nigerian Tulip International Colleges (NTIC) has expressed excitement over the recent performance of one of its students, Oghenerukevwe Esemitodje, who won a silver medal at the recently concluded 2025 Pan African Mathematics...
Botswana President Boko dates Malawi, to pair with Chakwera in 61st Independence Day Celebrations
The Maravi Post
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July 4, 2025
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Botswana President Advocate Duma Gideon Boko is visiting Malawi for three days. Boko is expected to arrive in Malawi on Saturday, July 5, 2025 through Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) in the capital Lilongwe. Reads Foreign...
Botswana’s Mares Geared Up for WAFCON Challenge
Sunday Standard
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July 4, 2025
Botswana’s senior national women’s football team, the Mares, have set their sights on making history at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) tournament in Morocco. Preparations are progressing smoothly with no injury concerns reported, and...