Word: botswana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Diamonds may be forever, but for producers in Africa they can be a curse or a blessing. They have taken at least one country, Botswana, from rags to riches. In terms of value, half the world's diamonds come from South Africa, Botswana or Namibia. The control of the diamond fields in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo has always been at the heart of dark and bloody civil wars in those nations as well. But Angola is a case unto itself, a land where a hijacked diamond industry continues to feed the fires of misery even...
...trip will begin in South Africa, and continue through Botswana and Zimbabwe...
...trip will begin in South Africa, and continue through Botswana and Zimbabwe. Fineberg said he is particularly looking forward to visits to Chobe National Park and to Victoria Falls and traveling along the Rovos Rail...
...competition. The issue arose again when the night's three remaining contestants were asked whether Miss Universe should step down if she became pregnant during her reign. After Miss Spain and Miss Philippines, a crowd favorite who all but had the crown bobby-pinned to her head, fumbled, Miss Botswana stepped in. MPULE KWELAGOBE, her country's first-ever entrant, walked away with the title after asserting that pregnancy, like the pageant, was a celebration of femininity. Try telling that to Miss Guam...
...Clinton has shown an amazing inability to think of the long-term consequences of his actions. The only results we may see of the actions in Yugoslavia are an increase in the suffering of Kosovar Albanians and a rise in anti-American feeling around the world. OPONDO WANYAMA Francistown, Botswana...