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The Namibian high court recently invalidated the country’s colonial-era “sodomy law”, which had made consensual sexual acts between men a criminal offence. The court declared that the common law offences of “sodomy” and “unnatural sexual offences” were unconstitutional. This ruling follows a separate decision in 2023 where Namibia’s supreme court…

Westerners see elephants as pets, said Mokgweetsi Masisi, whose government threatened to send 30,000 elephants to Germany and the UK to demonstrate their dangers

The Duke of Sussex took Meghan Markle to Botswana for the couple's third official date.

Botswana alone is home to a third of the entire African elephant population – more than any other country in the world.

President Mokgweetsi Masisi offers to send the animals as a ‘gift’ to Berlin amid a dispute over hunting trophies.

Botswana's President threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany over trophy hunting dispute, sparking international debate.

Botswana's President plans to send 20,000 elephants to Germany amid concerns over hunting trophy imports and elephant overpopulation, sparking debate on el...

‘We are paying the price for preserving these animals for the world,’ the president said