Word: botswana
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...Taught English in Botswana from...
...ailing 85-year-old dictator, a former liberation hero who has ruled for 29 years. Western capitals and human rights groups have urged Africa to do the same, believing that the continent needed to recognize its own problems and sort them out. A few African leaders, like those in Botswana and Uganda, obliged...
...opposition to recognize him as President and to enter into a deal that preserves his power. This modus operandi is becoming all too common in Africa - think Kenya - and is leading to a great deal of bloodshed. Ian Khama, the President of the oldest democracy in Southern Africa, Botswana, has denounced power sharing as a means of keeping losing parties in power. In a recent interview, he said: "If a ruling party thinks it's likely to lose, and then uses its position as a ruling party to manipulate the outcome of the election so that it can extend...
...charged in March with committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the A.U.'s chief, said the ICC, based in the Hague, represents a "new world terrorism" and blamed prosecutors for targeting the continent. Several African states, including Botswana, have expressed discomfort with the A.U. declaration and said they would uphold ICC orders...
...offered nothing of the sort. The businesses that thrived amid the war, autocracy and corruption of postindependence Africa were of a depressing sort: emergency aid, arms-dealing, disaster journalism and security-ringed extractive industries for whom development was too often someone else's problem. There were exceptions, countries like Botswana and Mauritius and businessmen like Bsaibes, whose 19th century Lebanese forebears were tricked into disembarking in Liberia after buying passage to America, but who thrived anyway. But the exceptions only highlighted how far the rest of Africa was falling short. (Read an interview with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...