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GABORONE, Botswana -- Several dozen Bushmen who had been expelled from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve have returned there under a landmark court ruling giving the traditional hunter-gatherers ...
More than 200 bushmen from the Kalahari desert are taking the Botswana government to court over their forced eviction from ancestral land. They are challenging a 2002 decision to resettle them outside ...
ACCRA, GHANA — In a landmark decision, the Botswana High Court ruled Wednesday that the nation’s government had acted illegally when it forcibly evicted the last tribal Bushmen from the Central ...
CENTRAL KALAHARI GAME RESERVE, Botswana — They were on the move beneath an unyielding sun, and for a while their approaching shapes seemed just another part of the desert, their tattered clothes ...
It’s early afternoon in this Bushmen settlement in the Kalahari desert and everyone is drunk. Removed from their ancestral land by the government, Botswana’s Bushmen, also known as San, are unable to ...
The anti-poaching conference in London today was disrupted by protests at the Botswana delegation - who call the indigenous Bushmen of the Kalahari 'poachers' and are forcing them into death camps. To ...
An archbishop and four Bushmen walk into a lab. What emerges is no joke, but a more complete picture of human genetic diversity than ever seen before. This new study of five Africans has identified ...
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 ...
If you know anything about the quiet Southern African country of Botswana, the chances are that it will chiefly be because you have read the delightful novels of Alexander McCall Smith. Bushmen are ...
When it comes to the human genetics of the Khoe-San there's a little that's stale and unoriginal for me in terms of presentation. The elements are always composed the same. The Bushmen are the "most ...
An appeals court in Botswana has ruled that indigenous Bushmen can drill wells for water on their traditional land in the Kalahari Game Reserve. The judgement is a remarkable victory for the Bushmen.