Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Politicians say it, comedians tweet it, travel guides write it: Cattle outnumber people in Botswana. Africa Check was curious, so ...

"Increase the prices, then we can do business with you," this is the message that pastoralists in the troubled beef sector have for those who run the Botswana Meat Commission (BMC). Farmers argue that ...

Lobatse, Botswana – In Botswana, cattle is a way of life. Owning and herding cattle and selling animals for quick cash when money is tight provide the livelihood for much of the rural population and ...

Botswana has put restrictions on the movement of cloven-hoofed animals in the northeast of the country after an incursion of buffalo from Zimbabwe put cattle at risk of contracting possible ...

In 1975, a more innocent time, the European Union signed the beef and veal protocol, which granted what became of its former African colonies access to the EU beef market. That was before the ...

In the remote village of Matshelagabedi, in north-eastern Botswana, 67-year old Philemon Malikongwa says life will never be the same again. Each night, the sound of barking dogs suggest more trouble ...

MOSINKI, Botswana (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Longer and harsher droughts are driving a growing share of Botswana's traditional cattlemen to give up their animals - but Skanki Mokweba will not ...

Botswana has announced it will cull more than 10,000 cattle in the country's northeast in a bid to fight an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. One of Africa's largest beef producers, Botswana was ...