By Gloria Dickie The lions that roamed the plains of northern Botswana were dying. One by one, the big cats were succumbing ...

More than 200 cattle from Hereford were relocated to the Bray Community Farm as a way of containing the spread of Foot and Mouth Disease following the detection of the disease in neighbouring Bray in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Politicians say it, comedians tweet it, travel guides write it: Cattle outnumber people in Botswana. Africa Check was curious, so ...

"Increase the prices, then we can do business with you," this is the message that pastoralists in the troubled beef sector have for those who run the Botswana Meat Commission (BMC). Farmers argue that ...

In the remote village of Matshelagabedi, in north-eastern Botswana, 67-year old Philemon Malikongwa says life will never be the same again. Each night, the sound of barking dogs suggest more trouble ...

In 1975, a more innocent time, the European Union signed the beef and veal protocol, which granted what became of its former African colonies access to the EU beef market. That was before the ...

Botswana has put restrictions on the movement of cloven-hoofed animals in the northeast of the country after an incursion of buffalo from Zimbabwe put cattle at risk of contracting possible ...

South Africa’s red meat and livestock industry has congratulated Botswana on its swift response to a suspected foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in the country. Botswana’s director of veterinary ...

MOSINKI, Botswana (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Longer and harsher droughts are driving a growing share of Botswana's traditional cattlemen to give up their animals - but Skanki Mokweba will not ...

Botswana has announced it will cull more than 10,000 cattle in the country's northeast in a bid to fight an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. One of Africa's largest beef producers, Botswana was ...

HWANGE — Fifteen cattle reportedly stolen from Botswana have been recovered in Matabeleland North by police following an anti-stock-theft and anti-poaching operation launched last week. The officer ...

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