GABORONE, Botswana (AFP) – Hundreds of Botswana Bushmen who have won a temporary reprive against eviction from their land are now calling on the government to recognise their settlement, a rights ...

ACCRA, Ghana — In a landmark decision, the Botswana High Court ruled Wednesday that the government had acted illegally when it forcibly evicted the last tribal Bushmen living a traditional life in the ...

NEW XADE, Botswana -- In the end, the Bushmen of Molapo village could neither hunt nor gather, they said. Nor could they tend crops, collect firewood or lead their goats to pasture. After tens of ...

GABORONE, Botswana – GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — A court in Botswana ruled Wednesday that indigenous dwellers in one of the driest parts of the world will not be allowed to drill wells for water. The ...

In Southern Africa, the government of Botswana is moving some of the last San Bushmen out of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Botswana officials call it progress, but Bushmen argue that the move ...

In a healthy democracy, people are not shot at from helicopters for collecting food. They are certainly not then arrested, stripped bare and beaten while in custody without facing trial. Nor are ...

METSIAMANONG, Botswana — When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as if he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, had never traveled ...

Renewed political discord hit the presses this week from London about the San Bushmen of Botswana. Jenny Tonge (House of Lords peer) responded to an editorial in The Guardian, which attacked her ...

LOBATSE, Botswana — Botswana's High Court ruled Wednesday that the country's Bushmen are entitled to live and hunt on their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, a decision hailed as a ...

Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa — Late at night in the Kalahari Desert, a little more than a decade ago, the clouds drew together like rippled crocodile skin, and the Bushmen, led by an old ...

In a landmark decision, the Botswana High Court ruled Wednesday that the government acted illegally when it forcibly evicted the last tribal Bushmen living a traditional life from the Central Kalahari ...

Botswana’s High Court ruled on Wednesday that more than 1,000 Bushmen had been wrongly evicted from ancestral hunting grounds in the Kalahari desert and should be allowed to return. The court ruled ...