02:23 GMT 18th July 2011
Botswana's balance of payments swung into a $427 m surplus in the first quarter from a $534m deficit in the previous three months, mainly due to higher mineral exports, the central bank said in June.
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04:09 GMT 14th June 2011
Most of Botswana's clinics were closed and the main hospital in the capital, Gaborone, barely functioned last month due to a civil service strike over salaries.
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10:04 GMT 28th March 2011
Botswana will issue an additional 10 billion pula ($1.6bn) of domestic bonds this year, the finance ministry said in a statement on its website last month.
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