The Namibian and Botswana governments may be risking their water resources for oil and gas revenue. They have licensed a Canadian firm, ReconAfrica, to prospect for oil in the Cubango Okavango River ...

More than 400 buffalo were found to have drowned in a river after possibly being chased by lions, according to the Botswana authorities. The tragedy took place between Botswana and Namibia in the ...

In a momentous occasion, Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi recently opened the 1 billion pula (£36.4 million) Okavango River Bridge in Mohembo. In 2016, Government of Botswana contracted Italian ...

GABORONE (Reuters) - Around 400 buffaloes drowned after stampeding into the Chobe River along the border between Botswana and Namibia, possibly while running away from lions, the tourism ministry said ...

Polers propelling makoros in the Okavango. Photo by Tiffany Roufs. Last summer mongabay writer Jeremy Hance visited the Okavango Delta in Botswana (“Camping in the Okavango Delta in Botswana“) with ...

The three countries agree on a roadmap to explore the boundary extension of the Okavango Delta World Heritage site to protect the river basin and the unique wetland system. The States Parties of ...

MAUN, Botswana — The Boro River is a narrow thread of blue twisting languidly through the lower reaches of the great Okavango swamps. Golden reed shafts arch over its shallow banks as white ...

Residents of Kasane have agreed to have water drawn from the Chobe River to meet water demands in other parts of Botswana. Residents of Kasane have agreed to have water drawn from the Chobe River to ...