ACCRA, Ghana — In a landmark decision, the Botswana High Court ruled Wednesday that the government had acted illegally when it forcibly evicted the last tribal Bushmen living a traditional life in the ...

Kalahari Bushmen are taking the government of Botswana to court over its refusal to allow them access to a water borehole on their land. The case is due to be heard at Botswana’s High Court in Lobatse ...

JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 10 -- All but a few of the Bushmen living in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve have been forcibly removed from their homes in recent days in what spokesmen for the affected ...

The Botswana Bushmen live in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in the centre of Botswana. The area is known to be one of the most rugged, arid landscapes on the face of the planet. In recent years, ...

They were entitled to live and hunt on ancestral lands, the court rules. LOBATSE, Botswana -- A court ruled Wednesday that Botswana's Bushmen were entitled to live and hunt on their ancestral lands in ...

Ancient scriptures and modern westerns warn us of risks inherent to the desert. The Latin root of desert was originally equated with wilderness, a people-abandoned place of spiritual desolation. Out ...

In a healthy democracy, people are not shot at from helicopters for collecting food. They are certainly not then arrested, stripped bare and beaten while in custody without facing trial. Nor are ...

Renewed political discord hit the presses this week from London about the San Bushmen of Botswana. Jenny Tonge (House of Lords peer) responded to an editorial in The Guardian, which attacked her ...

LOBATSE, Botswana (Reuters) - Botswana's High Court ruled on Wednesday that hundreds of Bushmen had been wrongly evicted from ancestral hunting grounds in the Kalahari desert and should be allowed to ...

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NEW XADE, Botswana -- In the end, the Bushmen of Molapo village could neither hunt nor gather, they said. Nor could they tend crops, collect firewood or lead their goats to pasture. After tens of ...

METSIAMANONG, Botswana — When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as if he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, had never traveled ...