Tag Archives: Botswana

By Spy Uganda Botswana’s former head of state Festus Mogae has died at the age of 86, President Duma Boko has announced. “Today Botswana mourns a distinguished statesman and patriot whose life was devoted to the service of his country,” Boko announced, adding that Mogae died early on Friday. The former president, who led Botswana from 1998 to 2008, had …

More than six years after Botswana’s courts struck down the ban on same-sex intimacy, the government has now formally removed the discriminatory provisions from the law. By Luis de Barros It has emerged that, on 26 March, the government published a notice amending the Penal Code by deleting paragraphs (a) and (c) of Section 164, which refers to “Unnatural Offences”. …