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	Botswana - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Botswana is dominated by the Kalahari Desert, which covers up to 70% of the land surface of the country.
		Botswana's impressive economic record has been built on the foundation of wisely using revenue generated from diamond mining to fuel economic development through prudent fiscal policies and a cautious foreign policy.
		Botswana seeks to further diversify its economy away from minerals, which account for a third of GDP, down from nearly half of GDP in the early 1990's.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Botswana (2458 words)

	POLITICS-BOTSWANA: Voters Expected to Choose More of the Same
		The fact that the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) is widely expected to win the Oct. 30 vote has contributed to the low key coverage of the campaign beyond the country's borders - as has Botswana's economic success.
		However, a number of electoral reforms were adopted after the 1999 election, such as the lowering of the voting age from 21 to 18, the formation of an independent electoral commission to run polls and the introduction of a process that allows Batswana outside the country to take part in elections.
		Botswana was became the first country in Africa to provide HIV-positive citizens with free anti-retroviral drugs.
	www.aegis.com /news/ips/2004/IP041017.html (1080 words)

	Politics of Botswana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In national elections in 1999, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) won 33 of 40 contested National Assembly seats, the Botswana National Front (BNF) won 6, and the Botswana Congress Party (BCP) won 1 seat.
		The government's policies for remote area dwellers continue to spark controversy and to be revised in response to domestic and donor concerns.
		Botswana maintains a U.S. embassy at 1531-1533 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington DC 20036 (tel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Botswana (818 words)

	History of Botswana - Gem of Africa - Republic of Botswana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Quett Ketumile Masire (Botswana's second President) The party enjoyed widespread support and was popular with Batswana and also enjoyed the support of the chiefs, the moderate, the wealthy and the educated.
		The constitution Botswana adopted on September 30, 1966, provides for a republican form of government headed by the President, with three main organs of government, namely; the legislature, the executive and the judiciary.
		The supreme legislative authority in Botswana is Parliament, consisting of the President and the National Assembly, and where tribal and customary matters are involved Parliament is obliged to act in consultation with the House of Chiefs.
	www.gov.bw /gem/history_of_democracy.html (2025 words)

	Looking for Botswana
		Botswana may well have never produced a flashing news headline in the international media, but still can be remarkable things to report.
		Land-locked and economically dominated and dwarfed by neighbouring South Africa, Botswana appears to exist as an island of tranquility in a sea of social and political turbulence.
		Agriculture: The agriculture sector in Botswana contributes 3.4% of the GDP and employs an estimated 22.1% of the labor force.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/international_affairs_comments/79402 (523 words)

	SF AIDS Fdn: BETA Spring 2001 -- World Bank Profile: Botswana
		Botswana was a British Protectorate from 1885 until it achieved independence in 1966.
		Botswana is a democratic republic with a 44-member national assembly, 40 of whom are elected every five years on the basis of universal adult suffrage, and the other four members are appointed by the elected members of the assembly.
		Botswana’s political landscape is dominated by BDP, which in 1999 won 33 of the 40 elected parliamentary seats, but opposition parties operate freely and are represented in the National Assembly.
	www.sfaf.org /treatment/beta/b47/b47world_bank_botswana.html (353 words)

	Botswana History Page 10: Politics
		Botswana is a unitary state with a multi-party parliamentary system, an executive presidency, and executive machinery dominated by a cabinet of ministers chaired by the president.
		Since independence Botswana has exhibited strong elements of democracy - accountability of government to the electorate through regular free elections held every five years, relatively uncorrupt bureaucracy accountable to government, government and judicial respect for human rights and the rule of law, and the economic underpinning of increasing resources distributed through government.
		The political and economic alignments of Botswana's foreign policy are indicated by the places to which it has sent resident ambassadors - originally New York and Washington, London and Lusaka in the 1960s; followed by Brussels, Harare and Stockholm in the 1980s, and by Windhoek, Moscow and Beijing in the early 1990s.
	www.thuto.org /ubh/bw/bhp10.htm (1358 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Botswana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And countries including South Africa and Botswana are in negotiations with the administration over a potentially lucrative f...
		Those countries are: Afghanistan, Albania, Bolivia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Botswana, Djibouti, Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana,...
		The Republic of Botswana is a landlocked nation of southern Africa.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/places/Botswana (301 words)

	Botswana \| Politics and Economics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Botswana is a democratic republic, having general elections based on universal franchise and being fought by eight registered political parties.
		Botswana is very proud that it has no political prisoners and possesses a constitution that guarantees freedom of speech, worship and association.
		With luck and diligent implementation of their unique approach Botswana will be able to avoid the problems of mass tourism which affect other African destinations, and the delicate habitats which attract so many visitors each year will remain unspoilt.
	www.infotour-africa.com /botswana_politics.htm (411 words)

	The World Today - Politics professor in Botswana faces deportation after criticising political system
		KAREN PERCY: An Australian professor of politics working at the University of Botswana is facing deportation after writing a paper critical of the African country's political system.
		ZOE DANIEL: For Professor of Politics, Kenneth Good, it was disconcerting but not a complete surprise when a group of men arrived at his door, and told him to leave his home of well over a decade.
		ZOE DANIEL: Botswana claims to be a great model of African democracy with free elections every five years, but Professor Good says that's merely an illusion because the Opposition never wins.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/content/2005/s1311036.htm (589 words)

	Botswana: A Development Success by Joseph E. Stiglitz - The Globalist > > Global Economy
		Botswana was suffering exactly the kind of liquidity crisis the IMF had originally been created to deal with — a crisis that could be eased by financing a deficit to forestall recession and hardship.
		Botswana, recognizing the volatility of its two main sectors, cattle and diamonds, had prudently set aside reserve funds for just such a crisis.
		Botswana is one of the success stories of development — averaging a growth rate of more than 7.5% from 1961 to 1997.
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=2507 (1409 words)

	POLITICS-BOTSWANA: The New President Takes Office
		Botswana’s political stability and steady economic growth, courtesy of diamond exports, have earned it acclaim on a continent where these advantages are in short supply.
		At present, the secretary of Botswana’s electoral commission is appointed by the head of state.
		This means that Botswana will fail to reach a target set by SADC in 1997 of having 30 percent of parliamentary seats in member states occupied by women, by 2005.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=26112 (1109 words)

	Botswana: democratization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Electoral competition has become an increasingly important factor in shaping central elements in Botswana's political processes, perhaps particularly since the emerging pattern of contest between the ruling BDP and the aspirant BNF party.
		Democracy in Botswana: the proceedings of a symposium held in Gaborone, 1-5 August 1988 / John Holm / Patrick Molutsi (eds.) / Botswana Society / University of Botswana.
		Argues that Botswana's liberal democracy and universal respect for human rights are anchored in the foundations of the Tswana traditional polity with its emphasis on the devolution of governing authority to local political units.
	www.eldis.org /ggov/afri_bot.html (935 words)

	POLITICS-BOTSWANA: Voters Expected to Choose More of the Same
		The fact that the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) is widely expected to win the Oct. 30 vote has contributed to the low key coverage of the campaign beyond the country’s borders — as has Botswana’s economic success.
		Classified as one of the poorest countries in the world at independence in 1966, Botswana has experienced sustained economic growth over the last three decades — thanks largely to diamond exports (the country is now the world’s leading exporter of uncut diamonds).
		While opposition leaders have been allocated air time on Botswana’s state television station (the only television station in the country), they have reportedly claimed that this airtime was insufficient — and that it came too late in the campaign to do them any good.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=26069 (1049 words)

	Survival International
		Three Bushmen, including one child, have been shot and wounded in recent days by Botswana police during incidents designed to intimidate the Bushmen still surviving inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and force them out once and for all.
		All Botswana's diamond mines are run by De Beers, which retains rights to a large deposit in the reserve.
		But the veil has not muffled the shots which spilled the blood of a child and two unarmed men guilty of wanting to live in peace on their ancient land.
	www.survival-international.org /news.php?id=1076 (753 words)

	Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles
		Opposition politics in Botswana have been crippled by factionalism, although there is an increasing realisation that the monolithic BDP can only be effectively challenged by some some sort of electoral pact.
		Botswana is notably free of corruption, ranked the least corrupt country in Africa by Transparency International, and the 25th least corrupt country in the world.
		Botswana supplied troops to the UN in Somalia (UNOSOM) and Mozambique, and participated in the SADC intervention in Lesotho in 1998.
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019501151218 (1234 words)

	afrol News - Botswana parliament dissolved before polls
		Botswana is also to organise presidential polls in October this year.
		In Batswana politics, there are two main rival parties and a number of smaller parties.
		In the 1999 general elections, the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) won 33 of the 40 contested parliamentary seats (54.2 percent of the votes).
	www.afrol.com /articles/13885 (419 words)

	Botswana
		Twice the size of Arizona, Botswana is in south-central Africa, bounded by Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
		In 2001, Botswana had the highest rate of HIV infection in the world: 350,000 of its 1.6 million people were infected, and half of the population between 25 and 29 was dying of the disease.
		Botswana: Bibliography - Bibliography See Z. Cervenka, Republic of Botswana (1970); A. Sillery, Botswana (1974); J. Botswana: History - History San (Bushmen) were the aboriginal inhabitants of what is now Botswana, but they constitute...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107353.html (702 words)

	BOTSWANA: COUNTRY COMMERCIAL GUIDE - 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While there are several active political parties in Botswana, the country's politics have been dominated by the governing Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which has held power since independence.
		The thirteen seats won by the opposition Botswana National Front (BNF), however, represented an unprecedented challenge to the BDP and a substantial increase from its previous representation of only three seats.
		Elections in 1999 will be a measure of the government's success in diversifying the economy and generating jobs for all segments of society.
	www.mac.doc.gov /tcc/data/commerce_html/countries/Countries/Botswana/CountryCommercial/1998/Political.html (308 words)

	Politics of Botswana
		There are two main rival parties and a number of smaller parties.
		Botswana maintains an embassy at 1531-1533 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington DC 20036 (tel.
		Political parties and leaders: Botswana Democratic Party or BDP [Festus MOGAE]; Botswana National Front or BNF [Kenneth KOMA]; Botswana Congress Party or BCP [Michael DINGAKE]; Botswana People's Party or BPP [Knight MARIPE]
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/go/Government_of_Botswana.html (785 words)

	afrol News - Botswana News
		Botswana's national ARV programme thus has met its targets just four years after the country sought to roll out ARV therapy nationwide.
		Misanet / Mmegi, 17 November - Botswana opposition parties are beginning to see the importance of working together to oust the ruling BDP party, parliamentary candidate Soblen Mayane of the Botswana National Front (BNF) holds.
		Misanet / Mmegi, 29 July - Australian Professor Kenneth Good, who was deported from Botswana last month as a "threat to national security" over his criticism of Botswana's democracy, suffered another setback this week when the Court of Appeal dismissed his case against deportation.
	www.afrol.com /countries/botswana/news (1094 words)

	Botswana: THE ALL-AFRICA INTERNET GUIDE: Botswana
		The Internet has taken off in Botswana, with the major centres now enjoying local access.
		A directory of businesses in Botswana, as well as links to various clubs and societies.
		Botswana's largest ISP provides a listing of local sites.
	www.goafrica.co.za /africa/botswana.stm (187 words)

	Africa Book Centre Limited Politics & Economy
		REPUBLIC OF BOTSWANA: 2001 Population and Housing Census
		A paper challenging the assumptions that Botswana's current political and socio economic system is exemplary. The author highlights some of the limitations by focusing on the situation of the Bushmen/San as a marginalised minority, losing out against the material interests accompanying the exploration and exploitation of diamonds. Notes, diags, 40pp, SWEDEN. NORDIC AFRICA INSTITUTE, 9171065202
		Dingake describes Botswana's political party development since independence, focusing on opposition organization and strategy. His analysis is informed by his own experiences as both member and Vice President of the Botswana National Front, as well as President of the Botswana Congress Party. Index, apps, b/w photographs, 199pp, BOTSWANA. BAY PUBLISHING (PTY) LTD.
	www.africabookcentre.com /acatalog/Politics_Botswana.html (657 words)

	FirstGlobalSelect \| Current business, investment and financial news from Botswana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) Lobatse abattoir will be shut down temporarily next week for upgrading, in order for it to fully comply with EU regulations of traceability.
		Addressing journalists at the hotel on Friday, general manager at Botswana Hotel Development Company (BHDC) and Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) property development and management manager, Letsweletse Ramokate said the hotel would feature modern facilities comprising a more spacious reception, a bigger bar and restaurant area on the top floor and improved conference facilities.
		Botswana Meat Commission's (BMC) audited financial performance for the year ending December 31, 2005 shows that the organisation's performance hit rock bottom in a year of booming beef prices.
	www.firstglobalselect.com /scripts/cgiip.wsc/globalone/htm/country_home.r?vcountry-id=240 (1266 words)

	Olufemi Vaughan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		in politics from Oxford University in 1989 and is currently professor of Africana Studies and of History at SUNY, Stony Brook, where he also serves as associate dean of the Graduate School.
		He is the author of Nigerian Chiefs: Traditional Power in Modern Politics, 1890s-1990s, University of Rochester Press, 2000 (winner of the Cecil B. Currey Book Prize); Chiefs, Power and Social Change: Chiefship and Modern Politics in Botswana, 1880s-1990s, Africa World Press, 2003.
		African historians generally agree that indigenous political structures (chieftaincy institutions) were central to the strategies of governance in colonial Yorubaland.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/2004/database/vaughan.html (171 words)

	AEGiS-AFP News: Botswana-politics-health: Botswana announces new health minister - July 31, 2003
		Phumaphi, who is joining the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) as assistant director, oversaw the introduction of anti-retroviral medicine to HIV-positive pregnant woman and a home-based care system for sufferers of the disease, which has infected nearly 40 percent of adults in Botswana.
		She was popular with the public, often mingling with people dying from AIDS and with overworked doctors treating sick patients.
		The AIDS crisis has reduced life expectancy in Botswana from 67 in 1998 to around 40.
	www.aegis.com /NEWS/AFP/2003/AF0307E0.html (335 words)

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