BALOPI REFUTES ALLEGATIONS MADE AGAINST HIM ON BPF VOICE NOTE

The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) Secretary General, Mpho Balopi, has strongly objected a circulating voice note…

BOMRA teeth too short for Dr Gure’s maphashaphasha

Botswana Medicines Regulatory Authority (BOMRA) has this week tried to raise its teeth against a medical…

JOHNSON & JOHNSON TO REPLACE TALC-BASED POWDER WITH CORNSTARCH

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) will stop making and selling its talc-based baby powder around the world…

JAPAN URGES ITS YOUNG PEOPLE TO DRINK MORE TO BOOST ECONOMY

Japan’s young adults are a sober bunch – something authorities are hoping to change with a…

MUSHROOM GROWING GAINING GROUNDS IN CAMEROON

Grilled on skewers, dried or used as hair oil: in Bafoussam, in western Cameroon, farmers are…

PROPOSED NEW LEGISLATION COULD ‘SAVE SA’S ICONIC SPECIES’

The White Paper proposes legislation for the management of South Africa’s iconic species: lions, elephants, rhinos and…

Sheryl Sanderg to leave Facebook after 14 years

For much of her first decade at Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg’s public stature grew alongside the size…

Connecting the African continent to drive a unified voice this World MS Day

World MS Day, officially marked on 30 May, aims to bring the global Multiple Sclerosis (MS)…

PIG BREEDERS IN CHINA GO HIGH-TECH TO IMPROVE GENETICS

In a market that produces almost 700 million pigs a year, breeding pigs that have larger…

CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE BENEFITS ZAMBIAN FARMERS

Some 5 000 farmers in Mufumbwe District in Zambia’s North-Western Province have profited from climate-smart agriculture…