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...June 11, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni criticized the Zimbabwe elections and said Mugabe "must go" if he lost the vote. Two days later 40 African leaders, including 14 former presidents, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and former Archbishop Desmond Tutu published an open letter condemning the violence, while Botswana, one of several of Zimbabwe's neighbors now caring for the heavy influx of refugees who have fled the violence and poverty, lodged an official protest with the regime over its conduct. On a visit to Zimbabwe, Marwick Khumalo, the head of an African parliamentarians' observer mission, said...
...uncomfortable, but that was also good for me, to challenge my own notions about what our culture is actually like, and how someone from Argentina might see it.”A STRUGGLE TO FIT INWu’s experiences working with the Clinton Foundation and researching abroad in Botswana and Swaziland exposed her to a different setting in the developing world. “You go to a developing country not to do quality research, but rather to widen your perspective on issues that these countries have to deal with,” Wu says. Among these issues...
...wisdom of placing a building that will hold, at any one time, half a billion dollars' worth of diamonds on the border of a country with one of the world's highest violent-crime rates--South Africa--might be questionable. But the benefit to Botswana, through stable jobs in Gaborone, is undeniable. What will surprise many old industry hands, particularly those familiar with the saga of Sierra Leone's conflict diamonds, is how the building is also evidence of what the country can do for diamonds. "The way people feel about diamonds has to be the way they think about...
Oppenheimer's experience in Botswana has firmly cemented his position on the question, Is business better for Africa than aid? "I'm anti-aid," he says. "It's brought more problems than it's solved." Donors reward bad governments, he argues. "Where Africa is coming right and is on an upward trend, that attracts business. Where it's doing badly, that attracts aid." Oppenheimer consults regularly with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who leads a growing body of opinion on the continent that has come to the same conclusion. "In the last 50 years, you've spent $400 billion...
While their impact on the country may be immense, De Beers' diamonds do not actually spend much time in Botswana. Once unearthed, stones will spend a few weeks passing through De Beers' plants, and a few more in cutting and polishing, before they are flown to jewelry makers around the world--all told, about three months after coming out of the ground. The De Beers marketing slogan "A diamond is forever" is not quite true in Botswana. However, for the country's growth, for now, that's enough...