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The chickens have come home to roost barely four years following President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s ill-advised decision to disarm the anti-poaching unit.

March 3, 2021 Share Botswana, confronting an unprecedented rise in poaching, has refuted reports by former President Ian Khama that at least 120 rhinoceroses have been killed in the last 18 months. Instead, the government says, wildlife crimes have dropped by 70 percent since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Botswana’s former president, Ian Khama, who stepped down in 2018, said Monday that poachers have killed 120 rhinoceroses in the past 18 months. Khama said poachers were killing rhinos with or without horns, and that “after corona there will be none left for tourists to s...

1st February 2021 President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s bromance with his Namibian counterpart Hage Geingob is growing stronger by the day as demonstrated by his most recent visit to Namibia in a trip he said was meant to strengthen relations between the two nations. The relationship between the two, by Masisi’s own admission last Friday, goes beyond diplomatic relations. “I’m also going to see my friend to talk about some stuff I cannot share with you here,” Masisi said just moments before he boarded a flight at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport to visit Namibia for the umpteenth tim...