Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Electricity demand in Botswana is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.6 per cent from 2011 to 2020, following robust economic growth and increasing rural electrification. Full text...

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - A Zimbabwean woman has made aviation history in Botswana, becoming the first female to be appointed general manager of state-owned Air Botswana, PANA reported from here Wednesday. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The Angolan under-20 national men's football team will travel to Botswana on Wednesday to compete in the 2011 Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) cup competition, scheduled for 1-10 December. Full text...

Benin City, Nigeria (PANA) - Botswana forced Nigeria to a goalless draw in an international football friendly played in Nigeria's southern Benin City on Saturday. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - With all but one invited players now in camp in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, members of the country's senior national team, the Super Eagles, are set to begin training for Saturday's friendly against Botswana in southern Benin city. Full text...

Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Each member of Nigeria's national football team, the Super Eagles, will earn US$5,000 as appearance fees for the two international friendlies against Botswana and Zambia this month, irrespective of the outcome of the matches. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Botswana will host the next meeting that will bring together regional bodies from around the world working on inter-state cooperation, to share good practices and effective approaches to migration issues, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a press statement Friday. Full text...

Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's president John Evans Atta Mills on Wednesday urged fellow African leaders to respect the constitutions of their countries and not to overstay their terms of office. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL), the youth wing of the South African ruling party, on Tuesday hit back at the ruling party, over its (ANCYL) plans to establish a Botswana “command team” to unite opposition parties there against the government. Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Monday night publicly rebuked its Youth League after its firebrand leader called for “regime change” in neighbouring Botswana. Full text...

Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – A coalition of South Africa-based civil society groups on Friday called on Botswana security forces and striking civil servants to exercise restraint or risk fuelling a severe humanitarian crises. Full text...

Luanda, Angola (PANA) - Angola's junior national athletics team will participate in the 12-15 May Full text...

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Botwsana and Zimbabwe here Monday ratified a billateral investment agreement and a US$ 70 million loan to Harare. Full text...

Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Zimbabwe said Thursday it had approved a Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPPA) with Botswana after months of tough negotiations.Full text...

Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Reviewing his team's performance in the last 12 months, Botswana football coach, Stanley Tshosane, said 2010 was a great year for the African country. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Botswana's President Ian Khama was due in Lusaka Wednesd ay and will hold closed-door talks with Zambian President Rupiah Banda, presidential spokesman Dickson Jere disclos ed here. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The agreement on economic and scientific cooperation sig ned between the governments of Angola and Botswana is to develop the two African countries, the head of education and research department, Angola's Institute of I nternational Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MIREX), Alberto Neto d os Santos said this Wednesday. Full text...

Moscow- Russia (PANA) -- The coordinator of the National Aids Control Agency of B otswana, Richard Matlhare, on Wednesday presented his country's experience on th e management of HIV-infected young children at first global conference on early c h ildhood education in Moscow. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- A depleted Togolese 'national football team was due to fly t o Botswana Thursday to play the host nation Saturday in a 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier. Full text...

Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Hosts Malawi clawed back from a goal deficit in the se cond half to hold visiting Zebras of Botswana 1-1 Wednesday in their African Nat i onal Cup qualifying match here. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambian President Rupiah Banda is visiting Botswana from Monday. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisian National football team began its campaign for the 2012 African Cup of Nations (CAN) on a shaky note, losing 1-0 to Botswana on Thursday at the El Menzah stadium in Tunis, the Tunisian capital, before thousands of their supporters. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisian National football team began its campaign for the 2012 African Cup of Nations (CAN) on a shaky note, losing 1-0 to Botswana on Thursday at the El Menzah stadium in Tunis, the Tunisian capital, before thousands of their supporters. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Tunisian national football squad on Wednesday began a training camp to prepare for its first tie against Botswana, scheduled for 1 July in Tunis, as part of the qualifiers for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) to be held in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The Botswana government on Wednesday expressed interest in having direct flights established between Luanda, Angola, and Gaborone, the capital, as soon as possible, a press release from the Angolan Embassy in Botswana disclosed. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- President Seretse Khama Ian Khama of Botswana has condoled his Angolan counterpart, José Eduardo dos Santos, over the victims of the heavy rains which ravaged the different Angolan regions, according to the Angolan News Agency (ANGOP) which quoted sources close to the Angolan Embassy in Gaborone. Full text...

Flacq- Mauritius (PANA) -- Visiting Gaborone United of Botswana Saturday evening defeated Curepipe Starlight of Mauritius 3-0 in the first leg, second round of the CAF Champions League played in the east of the island. Full text...

Luanda- Angola (PANA) -- The Botswana government on Friday expressed its desire to set up direct air link between Gaborone, the capital and Luanda, the Angolan capital, the Angolan News Agency (ANGOP) reported quoting a press statement from the Angolan Embassy in Gaborone. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe's power utility said Wednesday it had struck a deal with Botswana under which the latter will finance the refurbishment of an idle power plant in exchange for electricity supplies. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- The World Bank has granted Botswana a loan of US$186 million to finance its integrated transport project. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- Botswana has refused to admit into the country a grou p of 41 refugees who were spirited away from a refugee camp in Namibia last week e nd by a local human rights organization over ‘security fears’. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Air Botswana said Monday it was increasing its weekly flights to Zimbabwe from two to three, amid growing business traffic between the two neighbouring countries. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- Lesotho, Botswana and Swaziland signed with the Europ ean Union some interim free-trade agreements compatible with the rules set by th e World Trade Organisation (WTO), European official sources in Brussels said Frid a y. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Botswana has extended a US$ 70 million credit line to Zimbabwe to help the country overcome its huge economic crisis, officials said h e re Friday. Full text...

Pailles- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam and visitin g Botswana President Seretse Ian Khama, at a banquet at the Swami Vivekananda Co n vention Centre at Pailles, near Port-Louis, have condemned any attempt to overth r ow the democratically-elected government in Madagascar. Full text...

Plaisance- Mauritius (PANA) -- The President of Botswana, Seretse Khama Ian Khama , arrived in Mauritius on Wednesday afternoon on a two-day official visit as the c hief guest of the government at its celebration of Mauritius 41st Independence a n niversary. Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius(PANA) -- President Seretse Khama Ian Khama of Botswana will be the guest of honour at this year's Mauritius Independence Day on 12 March, the government said here. Full text...

Harare- Zimbabwe (PANA) -- Zimbabwe Monday repeated accusations that neighbouring Botswana, which does not recognise President Robert Mugabe's re-election in a violence-marred vote in June, was training and arming militants to topple his government. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Public health facilities, businesses and the communi ty of Francistown, Botswana’s second largest city, have been placed on high aler t following reports that two new cases of cholera were diagnosed at the Nyangab w e Referral Hospital, prompting fears of a possible outbreak in and around the ci t y, the Botswana Guardian reported on Friday. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana has deported a considerable number of Zimba bwean Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) spies, according to the Botswana G a zette, dated 11 December 2008. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana has deported a considerable number of Zimba bwean Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) spies, according to the Botswana G a zette, dated 11 December 2008. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- The Southern African development Community (SADC) ha s dispatched a multifaceted team to Zimbabwe to assess the situation and determi n e how the bloc could deal with the cholera outbreak in that country. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana reacted with shock Wednesday to fresh claim s by Zimbabwe that it was involved in clandestine manoeuvres to force a regime c h ange in Harare. Full text...

Windhoek- Namibia (PANA) -- A Namibian state-owned daily newspaper, the New Era, Friday called on Southern African leaders to call neighbouring Botswana 'to orde r ' after Botswana officials were quoted saying that the region should shut its bo r ders against Zimbabwe. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana's Director of Public Relations, Research an d Information in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Clifford Maribe, says the 3 mi l lion pula the country was donating to Zimbabwe is solely for the people, not to b e enjoyed by the Robert Mugabe administration. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- The Botswana Ministry of Health, in collaboration with some major companies in the country, has launched an organ donor trust fund to sustain expenditure on referrals for major organ transplants which are mostly done in the neighboring South Africa (US$1=8. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- The Botswana Ministry of Foreign Affairs has dismissed reports that Botswana plans to close its diplomatic mission in Zimbabwe, the local press reported. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Botswana President Lt. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- Seven cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (TB ) have been reported in the mining town of Selibe Phikwe in the northern part of Botswana, Monday's edition of the Mmegi Monitor newspaper reported. Full text...

Gaborone- Botswana (PANA) -- The Botswana’ Kalahari Bushmen (Basarwa or San) have appealed to the Catholic pontif, Pope Benedict XVI, to support them in their st r uggle to return to their land in the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve (CKGR). Full text...