More than one hundred Batswana in diaspora are expected to arrive in Gaborone this week on board a chartered Ethiopian Airways flight. President Mokgweetsi M...

Limkokwing University of Creative Technology donated a total of P 1 200 000.00 towards the Botswana Covid:19 Relief efforts. The donation which is a personal...

In a bid to minimise contact between patients infected with the coronavirus and doctors and nurses, Rwanda has deployed three robots to carry out simple task...

Water tanks and water hygiene have come to the forefront as the coronavirus pandemic is expected to impact poorest communities in Africa who have limited acc...

As Covid-19 spreads across the continent, Africa has responded swiftly to the pandemic and, as of now, reported cases are lower than feared. Even so, much ha...

Health authorities in Botswana have warned the public to adhere to social distancing and other health protocols or risk returning to the extreme social dista...

Every so often, a pandemic emerges that dramatically alters human society. The Black Death (1347 - 1351) was one; the Spanish flu of 1918 was another. Now th...

The COVID-19 pandemic reached a milestone in Africa, with more than 100 000 confirmed cases by Friday last week. The virus has now spread to every country in...

Uganda said on Thursday it is preparing to open up to private investors the transmission business of its electricity sector that officials say needs billions...

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party said on Thursday three of its activists were missing a day after taking part in a protest over food shortages and police den...

Governments across the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside the mountain of related challenges, fake news has become a source of frustrat...

This is one of a number of emergency measures, including a freeze in public sector hiring that was announced in recent weeks in response to the oil price cra...

Many countries, including Botswana, South Africa and Nigeria in Africa, have moved to make it mandatory to wear non-medical cloth masks when people are outsi...

A new study by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa has found that eighty-three thousand to 190 000 people in Africa could die of C...

The South African energy ministry has revealed plans to start developing a plan for a new 2,500 megawatt (MW) nuclear power plant. Africa’s most industrialis...

The King of Lesotho, Letsie III, has assented to legislation that prevents Prime Minister Thomas Thabane from dissolving parliament and calling an election i...

Madagascar is putting its self-proclaimed, plant-based “cure” for COVID-19 on sale and several countries in Africa have already put in orders for purchase, d...

By Thuso Motshegwe Botswana and South Africa are the only countries in the SADC bloc that have banned the sale of tobacco and its as a way of curbing the spr...

Ntibinyane Ntibinyane The coronavirus story is big. From the perspective of news, the outbreak of the virus is one of the biggest stories in modern history. ...

The World Health Organization is worried by the community spread of the new coronavirus in a significant number of West African countries, the regional head ...