ACCRA, Ghana — In a landmark decision, the Botswana High Court ruled Wednesday that the government had acted illegally when it forcibly evicted the last tribal Bushmen living a traditional life in the ...

Kalahari Bushmen are taking the government of Botswana to court over its refusal to allow them access to a water borehole on their land. The case is due to be heard at Botswana’s High Court in Lobatse ...

The Botswana Bushmen live in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in the centre of Botswana. The area is known to be one of the most rugged, arid landscapes on the face of the planet. In recent years, ...

Renewed political discord hit the presses this week from London about the San Bushmen of Botswana. Jenny Tonge (House of Lords peer) responded to an editorial in The Guardian, which attacked her ...

LOBATSE, BOTSWANA - A court ruled Wednesday that Botswana's Bushmen were entitled to live and hunt on their ancestral lands in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, after they accused the government of ...

NEW XADE, Botswana -- In the end, the Bushmen of Molapo village could neither hunt nor gather, they said. Nor could they tend crops, collect firewood or lead their goats to pasture. After tens of ...

They were entitled to live and hunt on ancestral lands, the court rules. LOBATSE, Botswana -- A court ruled Wednesday that Botswana's Bushmen were entitled to live and hunt on their ancestral lands in ...

There was outrage today as Botswana’s High Court denied the Kalahari Bushmen access to water. The Judge ruled that the Bushmen were not entitled to access an existing water borehole on their lands or ...

[JURIST] The Botswana Court of Appeal [SAFLII database] ruled [judgment, PDF] Thursday that the indigenous Bushmen [National Geographic backgrounder], or San, can drill wells in their village in the ...

LOBATSE, Botswana (Reuters) - Botswana's High Court ruled on Wednesday that hundreds of Bushmen had been wrongly evicted from ancestral hunting grounds in the Kalahari desert and should be allowed to ...

GABORONE, BOTSWANA — Botswana’s new president has promised to restore some rights, which were taken away from the Bushmen, an indigenous tribe of hunters and gatherers found across southern Africa.

KAUDWANE, Botswana -- Keratwaemang Kekailwe spent his childhood collecting wild fruits and eating the meat of animals killed by his father. Now he cuts a desolate figure, wearing blue jeans, a T-shirt ...