Gaborone — I was born and reared in a small village of Chadibe in an environment that was overwhelmingly rural. Like any other child of my time when I came of age I came to shun rural living. I could ...

But most opportunities are based in the bigger cities and towns. That has led to worries that small villages could face a lingering death unless there are moves to boost their economies. The village ...

Creating jobs for all remains a distant, if not unattainable, goal of our development plan, in respect of current strategies for both urban and rural development. For all our talk of Foreign Direct ...

Cell phones have become the newest accessory in medicine. The Botswana-UPenn Partnership has begun to use cell phone technology as a way of increasing access to medical care in rural and under-served ...

A group of health providers reviewed how to spot TB in a chest x-ray as part of the Botswana-UPenn Partnership. Credit: Courtesy of Ryan Littman-Quinn/Botswana-UPenn ...

Water- A scarce resource in many parts of Africa and a growing concern across the globe. In Botswana, water scarcity is a real crisis created by an increasing population, inevitably leading to a sharp ...

The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has announced that the Botswana-UPenn Partnership (BUP) is collaborating with Microsoft, the Botswana Innovation Hub, and other global partners to launch ...

WATCH: It takes a village: Botswana's villages are dwindling as people are forced into the cities for work Botswana is home to one of the most stable and successful economies in the whole of Africa.

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But most opportunities are based in the bigger cities and towns. That has led to worries that small villages could face a lingering death unless there are moves to boost their economies. The village ...

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