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A MASSIVE new development - in effect an entire new town - is under way in North West, which is enjoying massive capital inflows from soaring platinum and chrome prices.

Controversial self-confessed Robert Mugabe mouthpiece, Caesar Zvayi, who has been hiding in Botswana, was on Friday afternoon sent back home.

The United Nations peacekeeping arm launched a training programme this week for senior officials of the African Union (AU), aimed at improving the planning, deployment and management of its peacekeeping support missions. (AllAfrica)

The Botswana government has denied that the new administration of President Ian Khama is willing to introduce military rule to enforce discipline and arrest moral decay in the country. (AllAfrica)

For the SADC Trade Protocol to yield the desired results competition policies must be effectively implemented by the 14-member states, a senior Botswana government official, has said.

HIV and AIDS activist Zolani Kraai of BONEPWA, says that chambermaids should have written contracts just like other workers to ensure job security.

The challenges of HIV, AIDS and cancer in Africa may seem like a world away. But as one local nurse sees it, the people suffering there are still part of the same human race.

ZimTrade is calling on Zimbabwean exporters to participate at this year's Botswana Consumer Fair to consolidate deals clinched with foreign companies at other fairs.

The 28th summit of the Southern African Development Community concluded here Sunday with the launch of the Free Trade Area .

In 1967, the year after Botswana gained its independence from Britain, a huge diamond mine was discovered in a remote area called Orapa, about 400km from the capital city of Gabarone.

Over the past two days, this newspaper carried reports to the effect that Parliamentary Village, where our legislators lodge and the National Assembly are falling apart. (AllAfrica)

The Broadhurst Magistrates Court, postponing further hearing to 20 October, admitted three prosecution witnesses to give evidence in the case in which former Miss Botswana, Alimah Anderson, faces fraud charges. (AllAfrica)

The days when non-citizens dominatedand monopolised government auction of vehicles are over. (AllAfrica)

Mmotseng Ketshabile, popularly known as Bullet, is a man in demand. The producer whose magic touch has seen groups like Mokorwana, Shumba Ratshega and Tselakgopo rise from obscurity to stardom, is making waves in the big music industry down south. (AllAfrica)

The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV (BONELA) has learnt with shock about the withdrawal of the appeal against deportation by Mthandazo Sibanda at the Village Magistrates Court. (AllAfrica)

M-Net's Face of Africa has finally announced the young woman who will represent Botswana in M-Net's popular Model search competition, Face of Africa. (AllAfrica)

Local Afro jazz artistes are to hold a concert at the Satchmo's Jazz Cafe on Saturday as a tribute to Zimbabwean guitarist Reuben Bee Sithole, who has died. (AllAfrica)

BSE-listed Discovery Metals has announced key appointments of groups that will assist in completing the Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS) for the Boseto Copper Project and has received the terms of reference for the completion of the Environmental Impact Assessment for the project. (AllAfrica)

New officials at Jwaneng Comets have said their main task is to bring back the club to the Premier League next season. Comets were relegated last season and will now do battle in the First Division South. (AllAfrica)

The concerned group accuses the BMC management of 'unfulfilled promises over the exit package for security personnel'. (AllAfrica)

Standard Chartered Bank has increased its sponsorship for this year's Independence Golf tournament from 60,000 to 200,000. The bank has been associated with the event since independence in 1966. (AllAfrica)

Subject to regulatory approval, Leina Gabaraane is the new Managing Director of Stanbic Bank Botswana, Business Week has been reliably informed. (AllAfrica)

BOTSWANA'S unelected president, Seretse Khama Ian Khama, caught those who know him by surprise at the burial of the late Zambian leader, Levy Patrick Mwanawasa, on Wednesday. (AllAfrica)

DAKAR Friday, September 05, 2008 (IRIN) - As the Accra high-level forum on aid effectiveness drew to a close on 4 September, aid agencies praised ministers from developed and developing ‘partner’ countries as they signed an agreement to make aid more effective. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Friday, August 29, 2008 (IRIN) - To meet growing food demand, in another 40 years the world would need enough water to fill at least three lakes the size of Victoria, Africa's largest body of water, according to a projection in a new policy brief. Lake Victoria's estimated volume is 2,750 km3. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Friday, August 22, 2008 (IRIN) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has announced it will go ahead with plans to set up a regional grain reserve, while urging member states not to impose export restrictions on maize as the region grapples with high food prices. (irinnews.org)

ACCRA Friday, August 22, 2008 (IRIN) - Industrialised and developing countries will be under intense pressure to agree on greenhouse gas emission reduction targets during week-long negotiations over future greenhouse gas emission targets which kicked off in the Ghana capital Accra on 21 August. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, August 21, 2008 (IRIN) - One symptom of climate change is more severe tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons, featuring in the headlines more often. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, August 05, 2008 (IRIN) - In developing countries, where survival is often a daily struggle, people cannot afford to wait for their government to bail them out. Many are living in the grip of climate change, coping with frequent droughts, heavy flooding, intense cyclones and other extreme weather events, and have found ways to adapt: (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Monday, August 04, 2008 (IRIN) - As countries grapple with high food prices, attempts to draw attention to an inefficient food aid delivery system have been pushed to the back burner after the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks collapsed last week. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, July 31, 2008 (IRIN) - The world can expect to become about 0.2°C warmer per decade for the next two decades, according to several scenarios prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Even if the concentrations of all greenhouse gases and aerosols were kept constant at the levels they were in 2000, further warming of about 0.1°C per decade would still be expected. (irinnews.org)