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Warriors make Botswana home base
New Era
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The Namibia Football Association (NFA) has announced that the Brave Warriors will play their upcoming international home matches in Francistown, Botswana, following a strategic partnership with the Botswana Football Association (BFA). This was...
WAFCON 2024: Super Falcons return to training ahead Botswana clash
Daily Post
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July 8, 2025
The Super Falcons will return to training on Tuesday (today) after observing Monday as rest day, DAILY POST reports. Head coach Justine Madugu allowed the players to cool off following Sunday’s 3-0 victory over Tunisia in their opening game at the...
Chakwera hails Botswana President for inspiration
The Nation Malawi
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July 8, 2025
President Lazarus Chakwera has hailed Botswana President Duma Gedion Boko for inspiring Malawians who have “gone through a lot” in the past five years. The Malawi leader said this yesterday at Kamuzu Palace in Lilongwe during a media briefing they...
Botswana Defies AU Over Death Penalty
Botswana Gazette
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July 7, 2025
The government has asserted that Botswana’s retention of the death penalty is justified under international law GAZETTE REPORTER Botswana has no intention of imposing a moratorium on capital punishment or abolishing it any time soon, the...
Botswana and Malawi Sign Landmark Trade Deals to Boost Economic Ties
Botswana Guardian Sun
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July 7, 2025
Botswana and Malawi have signed two key Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) aimed at enhancing trade, investment, and sustainable development between the two countries. The agreements were signed yesterday in Lilongwe during President Duma Gideon...
BOTSWANA ARTISTS LAMENT BETRAYAL AND NEGLECT UNDER NATIONAL ARTS COUNCIL
Botswana Guardian Sun
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July 7, 2025
Botswana’s creative sector is in turmoil as frustrations mount over the performance of the National Arts Council of Botswana (NACB). In a powerfully worded open letter to the Minister of Youth, Gender, Sport, and Culture, Jacob Kelebeng, local...
Madugu demands more goals as Super Falcons set for Botswana
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 8, 2025
Babajide explains Jota-like goal celebration Super Falcons’ Coach, Justine Madugu, has charged his girls to strive towards converting all their chances to goals as they continue their battle for a 10th title at the ongoing African Women’s Cup of...
Namibia’s Brave Warriors to Host World Cup Qualifiers in Botswana
Informante
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July 7, 2025
Maria David THE Namibia Football Association (NFA) has announced a significant partnership with the Botswana Football Association (BFA), which will see the Brave Warriors play all their home matches in Francistown, Botswana, with immediate effect....
Gaborone councillors decry deteriorating roads
MMEGI
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July 7, 2025
Despite ongoing efforts by the city council to repair potholes and maintain road infrastructure, the councillors expressed disappointment over the pace and quality of the interventions, calling for immediate and comprehensive action. Raising the...
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...
Botswana’s Zebras spoil Malawi’s 61st Independence Day Celebrations
The Maravi Post
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July 6, 2025
…Flames 1 (0) 1 (3) Zebras BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-The Malawi senior national football team, the Flames, drew 1-1 with Botswana in an Independence Day Celebrations match at Bingu National Stadium,on Sunday. Although the match ended in regulation...
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,...
Junior Chess Champs Face Off at UB
Botswana Gazette
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July 9, 2025
Botswana Chess Federation will host a national junior championship this weekend to select players for the Africa Junior Chess Championship TLOTLO KEBINAKGABO The Botswana Chess Federation (BCF) is set to host the 2025 Botswana Junior Chess...
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...
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...
Do-or-Die Clash for Mares
Botswana Gazette
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July 9, 2025
Botswana’s women’s national team prepares for a decisive WAFCON group stage match against Nigeria tomorrow following a narrow loss to Algeria GAZETTE REPORTER Botswana’s senior women’s football team, The Mares, will face Nigeria in a crucial...
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...