Full Coverage: Southern Africa

27.10.2006 Media watchdogs have criticized attempts by the Botswana government to control state media coverage of a controversial program to relocate the San community from their ancestral land in a game reserve.

27.10.2006 Highlighting the role played by women in promoting peace in countries emerging from conflict, the United Nations Security Council today stressed it was essential to promote the full participation of women in helping rebuild such societies and also encouraged more female involvement in UN peacekeeping operations.

18.10.2006 In its forthcoming report on indigenous peoples in Botswana, the continent's top human rights body is highly critical of the government's treatment of the Bushmen tribe.

11.10.2006 WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (OneWorld) - Allies of dispossessed African Bushmen assailed Botswana's diamond industry as the Southern African country's president told a U.S. audience Tuesday the gem is an economic lifeline.