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Botswana has announced that it has rejected a proposal from the UK to include it in the UK's controversial migration program, mirroring the one they have established with Rwanda. What Happened Botswana's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lemogang Kwape, announced that the government of Botswana had recently received a proposal from the UK to sign a migration deal, in a deal that...

Botswana has informed Germany that it wishes to send 20,000 elephants in protest of Germany's environmental ministry attempting to impose more restrictions on imports of "trophies" from hunting animals. President of Botswana Mokgweetsi Masisi said to German media that this would impoverish the population of Botswana, adding elephant numbers have skyrocketed due to conservation efforts. Around 130,000 elephants, or 1/3 the...

What You Need to Know: Twelve Zimbabwean men have appeared in a Botswana court today to face charges of human trafficking and entering the country illegally.  The court alleges eleven of the twelve men illegally entered Botswana through Ramokgwebana village on the 29th of March. According to documents shown to the court, the twelfth man, Khaya Ngwenya, entered the country legally,...