Botswana News

JOHANNESBURG, 9 July 2009 - In the first case of its kind in Botswana, a woman has successfully sued another woman for publicly revealing her HIV status.

A press conference to announce plans for the launch of a direct flight between Kenya and Botswana was cancelled on Tuesday without explanation.

Botswana has declared the just-ended African Union Summit a failure and slammed Libyan President, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for lack of respect for established procedures and use of coercion to conduct the affairs of the AU, which he chairs.

The High Court in Lobatse has ruled that a woman must pay P7,000 in damages for publishing confidential HIV/AIDS information.

A Flying Mission and Rescue One aircraft, carrying three passengers and a pilot, crash-landed at the Gantsi airport at noon last Thursday, causing extensive damage to the plane.

Botswana vice president Mompati Merafhe strongly criticised the July 1 to 3 summit of the African Union, held in Libya.

Kenya Airways is expected to launch a direct flight between Nairobi and Gaborone in the next four weeks, press reports say.

Gaborone - Botswana on Sunday distanced itself from a decision by African leaders to ignore the International Criminal Court order to extradite Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir, the foreign ministry said.

Hana Mining Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has completed the non-brokered private placement announced on June 26, 2009 for proceeds of $500,000. The private placement consisted of 2,000,000 units at a price of $0.25 per Unit.

Kolari Private Limited trading as Independent Management Consultants has announced that it has been selected as a 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards finalist in Networking Infrastructure Solutions.

Debswana has secured a P750 million loan facility from local financial institutions to help it sail through a cash drought brought about by the sharp decline in diamond sales.

Australia-based A-Cap Resources is hoping to commission its uranium project in Letlhakane in 2011 at a time when a growing number of countries accept the use of the silver-grey mineral for power generation and are downscaling their proliferation policies, propelling its price up.

Destined at one point to have been the capital city of Botswana, Lobatse has suffered so much government neglect that it is on the brink of bankruptcy and collapse.

The National Off-Road Racing series has reached the halfway mark with the Toyota Desert Race that took place near Gaborone in Botswana.

In yesterday's edition, Mmegi carried the story of our photographer based in our Francistown office, Moreri Sejakgomo.

Backed by good service delivery and a pedigree of being part of an international brand, Standard Chartered Bank Botswana was once the leading bank in the country.

The Botswana Daily News of Thursday June 18 ran a screaming headline that "the Gaborone City Council is corrupt". To most people, that was no revelation.

Lack of coordination between urban and rural land authorities hampers land management in Botswana, according to a Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis study that has been gathering dust on office shelves since it was released some years ago.

Member of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Security, Robert Molefhabangwe, has suggested that Selebi-Phikwe should be given special dispensation.

Shortage of Infant Formula milk still has been a problem in Francistown since last year, it was revealed at an AIDs workshop Tuesday.