CNN sits down with Botswana's first female high court judge to talk about the trials and tribulations of her life.
As the first female judge to be appointed to Botswana's high court, Unity Dow is a trailblazer in her home country, paving the way for other women fighting for equality and justice.
Spain's King Juan Carlos was recovering Friday after being readmitted to a Madrid hospital for surgery on his right hip, the Royal Palace said.
Spain's King Juan Carlos made a rare public apology Wednesday for his recent hunting trip to Africa that has caused an outcry in Spain and abroad for its expense during the nation's economic crisis and for hunting elephants.
Mali beat Botswana 2-1 Wednesday to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinals from Group D of the competition.
Guinea equaled the record for a winning margin in an Africa Cup of Nations match on Saturday with a 6-1 over 10-man Botswana in Franceville.
John Mensah proved the match-winner for Ghana as they beat Botswana 1-0 at the Africa Cup of Nations but his side had to fight hard for their victory after the defender was sent off.
South Africa's ruling party Thursday suspended its controversial youth leader for five years after a disciplinary committee found him guilty of sowing divisions.
After a dramatic end to a year-long qualifying campaign, the 16 teams competing in the 2012 African Cup of Nations have learned their group stage opponents after the draw for January's tournament in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea was made.
A plane that crashed in Botswana killed a British pilot and seven European passengers, an official said Tuesday.
Sudanese billionaire and communications mogul Mo Ibrahim has issued a warning to African leaders clinging to power, saying people are no longer prepared to put up with bad governance on the continent.
Billionaire African businessman Mo Ibrahim has warned leaders clinging to power that people will no longer accept bad leadership.
The hot African sun is turning cool and big and a deep soft orange, and the impala are getting mighty jumpy. They ought to be. A half-kilometer across the grassy bush, we're watching a pack of eight African wild dogs, downwind and sniffing a scent, planning their evening hunt.
The Okavango Delta is one of earth's remote places; it is not easy to get to, and it is quite wild. Independent travel there is not for the inexperienced or the faint-hearted.
A $5 million prize for excellence in African leadership was awarded to former Cape Verde President Pedro Verona Pires in London on Monday.
CNN's Nkepile Mabuse reports that Michelle Obama is in South Africa.
First lady Michelle Obama met with former South African President Nelson Mandela on Tuesday as part of a weeklong visit to the continent, according to a spokeswoman for the first lady.
First Lady Michelle Obama gives dating advice and encourages the dreams of a group of British girls.
First lady Michelle Obama arrived in South Africa on Monday for the start of a weeklong trip that officials have said will focus on youth leadership and education, and include meetings with key figures in the anti-apartheid struggle.
First lady Michelle Obama's official trip to southern Africa next week will focus on youth leadership and education, and will include meetings with key figures in the anti-apartheid struggle.
President Barack Obama will welcome his Gabonese counterpart to the White House on Thursday, a day after a visit with another African leader.
Controversy erupts over a meeting between President Obama and the president of Gabon. CNN's Brianna Keilar reports.
President Barack Obama will welcome his Nigerian counterpart to the White House on Wednesday, days after the leader of Africa's most populous nation was sworn in for a four-year term.
Public servants across Botswana are in the fourth day Thursday of a strike that is expected to last until April 29.
From parched savannah to rich wetland, every year Botswana's Okavango Delta transforms and nature responds.
Each year, the heart of Botswana turns from parched savannah into rich wetland, and the Okavango Delta springs to life.
Game drives and the Big Five -- pulling off a classic African safari is easier (and cheaper) than you might think.
Sixteen members of Botswana opposition parties say they will boycott the official state visit of Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika this week.
Botswana has joined the international community in commending the Egyptian people for the largely peaceful manner in which they brought about the ouster of long-time leader Hosni Mubarak.
A 2005 cable by the U.S. ambassador to Botswana criticized how the southern African nation's government handled the removal of Bushmen people from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, according to the document obtained by WikiLeaks and published Thursday by London's Guardian newspaper.
The president of Botswana has invited the internationally recognized president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, for an official state visit, the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Botswana announced Wednesday.
A meeting between Ivory Coast's self-declared president Laurent Gbagbo and African leaders ends with no declaration.
As an African man, I have always felt a sense of responsibility, not only toward my country, but to those living on the continent who face the daily challenges that poverty and disease bring.
Broadreach Healthcare CEO Ernest Darkoh on the future of health care in Africa.
A leading HIV/AIDS expert says it is time for Africa to take a "brutally realistic" look at how it combats a disease that kills thousands of people on the continent each day.
Two suspects were arrested over the weekend after authorities found two tons of raw elephant ivory and five rhinoceros horns at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, the Kenya Wildlife Service said Monday.
The radio in the vehicle crackles. It's a fellow ranger telling our guide, O.T., that there has been a cheetah sighting. Visibly excited, O.T.'s lips form a huge smile as he turns to us, the tourists, in the back of his open-air vehicle to relate the good news.
You've done Paris, France, you've done Rome, Italy, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While there's certainly nothing wrong with taking in sights at world-renowned travel locales, there are times when you want to get away from the familiar. Ironically, you don't have to leave your house to get inspired; simply flip on the TV or dip into your DVD collection.
The reality star is stopped at customs after forgetting her passport on the airplane
When Autumn Preble was a teenager in the 1960s, she spent hours gazing at black-and-white LIFE magazine photographs that documented the journey of Peace Corps volunteers all over the world.
The soulful singer becomes a mom for the first time to son Jett Hamilton Roberts
The music of Hugh Masekela is the sound of South Africa. In a career that has spanned more than 50 years his songs have expressed both joy and indignation, exploring themes of inequality and hardship, protest and hope.
African Voices focuses on Botswana's president, Ian Khuma, the son of the country's first president.
Botswana has been hailed as one of Africa's success stories and a beacon for democracy on the continent. It's home to Africa's longest continuous multi-party democracy and has remained politically stable since gaining independence in 1966.
Deaths in Zimbabwe related to the cholera epidemic are approaching 2,000, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, and close to 40,000 people have been affected by the preventable water-borne disease.
The star and her fiancé are expecting their first child together
Zimbabwean police are in contempt of court for failing to follow a judge's order to release jailed members of the opposition, attorneys for the activists said.
Zimbabwe's central bank introduced a $10 billion note worth less than 20 U.S. dollars, as the once-prosperous southern African nation battles against spiraling hyperinflation.
The man who would be Zimbabwe's prime minister under a power-sharing pact said Friday his party will withdraw from efforts to implement the unity government unless 42 abducted members of his party are freed by New Year's Day.
Zimbabwe's government is facing trouble and president Mugabe insists his country is fine. CNN's Robyn Curnow reports.
The first officially sanctioned ivory auction in nearly a decade happened Tuesday in Namibia, with opinion split on whether the sale will help or hurt efforts to stop elephant poaching.
Botswana's retired president wins an award designed to promote -- and reward -- good governance
The vintage bush plane banks sharply to starboard, allowing me a bird's-eye view of a giraffe trotting along the red-orange Namibian desert floor.
Attackers could gain control of water treatment plants, natural gas pipelines and other critical utilities because of a vulnerability in the software that runs some of those facilities, security researchers reported Wednesday.
How do the leaders of other southern African nations, who met about the crisis at the weekend, regard Robert Mugabe?
CNN's Robyn Curnow recounts her interview with British director Anthony Minghella, who died at age 54.
The English Patient and Talented Mr. Ripley filmmaker was 54
They retreat to a houseboat on a Botswana waterway filled with crocs and hippos
Prince Harry and his girlfriend of more than three years, Chelsy Davy, have split, London newspapers are reporting.
CNN's Robyn Curnow reports on a feel good movie on the fictional exploits of Botswana's No.1 Ladies Detective.
Botswana's first Hollywood movie
Efforts to protect endangered African elephants from the threat of extinction are being undermined by a burgeoning ivory smuggling network run by Asian crime gangs and by a "rampant trade" in illegal ivory on auction Web sites such as eBay, according to two new reports.
For years, Maswe Gkiiwe has felt like a man without a country.
The world's largest open-pit diamond mine is as big as 52 football fields and more than 20 stories deep.
It's a big trip in terms of time, planning, and money -- so before heading into the lion's den, conduct a bit of research.
It's early in the morning in the Botswanan capital of Gaberone. Seven-year-old Mercy Banyekitse is taking her daily dose of AIDS cocktails, the miracle drugs that have prolonged the lives of tens of thousands of Botswanans infected with HIV.
The three countries that are farthest behind the goal of getting AIDS drugs to those who need them are South Africa, India, and Nigeria, an official of the World Health Organization has said.
A professor of medical law at Edinburgh University has penned a global literary phenomenon -- charming African stories about the "No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency."
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