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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

GABARONE, Botswana — The government announced the temporary closure yesterday of southern and central parts of the Central Kalahari game reserve, saying it was needed to contain a disease outbreak ...

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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 ...

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 ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bushmen in Botswana's Central Kalahari game reserve have written to the Dalai Lama, asking him to appeal to the government on their behalf for restoring their ...

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 ...

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 ...