The row about the Bushmen - Botswana
THE village of Kaudwane may be less than 300km (186 miles) from Botswana's capital, but it is a world apart from Gaborone's smart buildings and new malls. Scrawny cows roam the sandy roadside, chewing whatever grass they can find. Thatched huts dot the scrubby, empty landscape. The school and clinic apart, brick buildings are few. Here, in Kaudwane, is the new home of people relocated from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), a protected area of 53,000 square kilometres (20,000-plus square miles) in the middle of the country. Their fate threatens to tarnish the image of Africa's shiniest success story.
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18 Février 2006 à 10:58 dans
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