Botswana - Country Profile

Full name: The Republic of Botswana
Population: 1.9 million (UN, 2009)
Capital: Gaborone
Area: 581,730 sq km (224,607 sq miles)
Major languages: English (official), Setswana
Major religions: Christianity, indigenous beliefs
Life expectancy: 55 years (men), 55 years (women) (UN)
Monetary unit: 1 Pula = 100 thebe
Main exports: Diamonds, copper, nickel, beef
GNI per capita: US $6,470 (World Bank, 2008)
Internet domain: .bw
International dialling code: +267 

 Botswana, one of the most stable countries in Africa, the continent's longest continuous multi-party democracy. It is relatively free from corruption, human rights and good. It is also the largest manufacturer of diamonds and the trade became a middle income country. Botswana defends some of the largest protected areas in Africa. It is sparsely populated, because it is very dry. Kalahari desert, home of the reduced bond Bushmen hunter-gatherers, much of the territory and most areas are too dry to keep it apart from all cattle. The government wants to spend the rest of the population Bushman Kalahari Game Reserve in neighboring cities. He denied reports that some Bushmen evicted from their home country. 

 

At the end of 1800 Britain was a protectorate of Bechuanaland, to prevent infringement of the territory against the Boer Transvaal or German expansion from South West Africa. Bechuanaland in 1966 were independent, in Botswana. Botswana is a haven for refugees and activists against apartheid in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s, but was cautious because the economic dependence on white ruled South Africa and neighboring military. Later, in the country, an increase of illegal immigrants to be recovered from the economic crisis in Zimbabwe next increase is seen. 

 

Botswana, which once had the highest HIV / AIDS treatment program with the most advanced in Africa. Anti-drug available. But he says the United Nations more than a third of adults in Botswana with HIV or AIDS. The disease has orphaned thousands, and reducing life expectancy .. Botswana seeks to reduce economic dependence on public offers diamonds to the local economy and increase employment through higher value diamonds should be initiated at the local level. It is a diamond trading company - Diamond Trading Company Botswana - a joint venture with diamond giant De Beers. "What we have to pay on the grounds that it is not one of the largest knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship can be seen in Africa," said De Beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer is the center of the diamond industry to focus its efforts and tonight we will see changes - .. Safari tourism control and often luxurious - an important source of income.