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Botswana
[ bot-swah-nuh ]
noun
- a republic in southern Africa: formerly a British protectorate; gained independence 1966; member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 275,000 sq. mi. (712,250 sq. km). : Gaborone.
Botswana
/ bÉ’t-; bÊŠtˈswÉ‘ËnÉ™; bʊˈtʃwÉ‘ËnÉ™ /
noun
- a republic in southern Africa: established as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland in 1885 as a defence against the Boers; became an independent state within the Commonwealth in 1966; consists mostly of a plateau averaging 1000 m (3300 ft), with the extensive Okavango swamps in the northwest and the Kalahari Desert in the southwest. Languages: English and Tswana. Religion: animist majority. Currency: pula. Capital: Gaborone. Pop: 2 127 825 (2013 est). Area: about 570 000 sq km (220 000 sq miles)
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Sentebale was founded by Prince Harry and Prince Seeiso in 2006 with a focus on addressing the effects of HIV and Aids on young people in the southern African nations of Lesotho and Botswana.
She has another film in development set in Zambia, but also a movie with “Moonlight†director Barry Jenkins’ company Pastel that would shoot in Europe and a sci-fi project set in Botswana.
A bloodied but determined honey badger pursues a Cape porcupine in Botswana.
Attempts to solve this problem date back decades - and in the early 2000s DR Congo and its neighbours - South Africa, Angola, Namibia and Botswana - dreamt up an interconnected electricity grid.
In the case of Senegal, the political turnaround was just as striking as in Botswana, albeit in a different way.
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