On the 7th of October 2024, Botswana officially unveiled its first batch of locally assembled electric vehicles (EVs) in Gaborone, the capital city.   The unveiling ceremony happened at the Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation (BITRI) showroom. BITRI was established in 2012 as a parastatal under the country’s Ministry of Communications, Knowledge, …

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  Kariba is the largest man-made lake in the world by volume. It lies 200 kilometers south of Zambia’s capital Lusaka, on the border with Zimbabwe.   The massive dam wall was built in the 1950s to revolutionize the countries’ energy supplies by trapping the water of the Zambezi River, turning a valley into a …

ZIMBABWE & ZAMBIA ARE FACING THE WORST DROUGHT IN DECADES, AND THE RESULTS COULD BE CATASTROPHIC. Read More »

On the morning of 28 September 2024, at around 5 am, rangers from Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks), shot a ‘problem’ elephant in the streets of Victoria Falls. This, according to authorities, came after a distress call from a resident.   The elephant was said to have left three orphaned calves, which sparked …

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