Drones are providing life-saving care to women in remote parts of the southern African country, Botswana, who otherwise may die in childbirth, thanks to support from the United Nations.
Following an official visit to Botswana, the UN Special Rapporteur on cultural rights has called on the country to embark on a second phase of nation-building that reflects, builds on and celebrates its cultural diversity, stressing that issues relating to the recognition of communities as tribes must be addressed.
With AIDS threatening to reverse socio-economic progress in Botswana, the southern African country has also found that it needs telecommunications innovation, not just infrastructure, to accelerate economic development, a report co-sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government says.
Denouncing Botswana's recent deportation of eight Namibian asylum seekers to their home country, the United Nations refugee agency today pressed the Gaborone Government for an explanation.
Continuing his five-nation tour of Africa, Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived today in Botswana, the first United Nations chief to visit the country.
Four years after clashes in Namibia drove hundreds of people to Botswana, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has begun a repatriation effort targeting those who now want to return home, a spokesman for the agency announced today.
