botswana

AIDS-stricken Botswana sees no development progress from telecommunications – UN

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.

UN refugee agency denounces Botswana's return of asylum seekers to Namibia

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 tour of African countries, Annan becomes first UN chief to visit Botswana

Continuing his five-nation tour of Africa, Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived today in Botswana, the first United Nations chief to visit the country.

UN begins repatriating Namibian refugees from Botswana

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.