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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Global Voices Online is reporting how social media is playing a role in the latest parliamentary and council elections in Botswana.

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JULY 6, 2006

Nata is a village of 5,000 people in Botswana. Botswana has the second highest HIV infection rate in Africa. Readers can donate directly to the village through the blog's PayPal account. According to the blog, 50% of the pregnant women in the village are HIV positive and 400 children have been orphaned by AIDS.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2015

David Barnard has completed six of these grueling races: The Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South Africa (its name is derived from a Tswana word meaning "the great thirst"). Ultramarathons are extreme running events: 250-kilometer (155-mile) foot races over five or six days in the harshest environments on Earth.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

We are also in discussions in Peru, in Burkina Faso, and in Botswana as well. It is different in every place and oftentimes very laborious, but we are working on a potential program with The Open Society Institute in Myanmar. I am working with a foundation right now trying to plan out our Africa initiative for the remainder of the year.

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JUNE 19, 2009

The first opportunity that I had to go back was to work in a refugee camp in Botswana. I committed to learning more, and I went to Stanford and started studying Swahili and African studies. Completely random.

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