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Kwelagobe, 22, is a native of Botswana and has made the African AIDS epidemic a priority since winning Ms. Universe. “I realized I had a huge platform to educate people...
...severe storms, others either shrivel and die - like their crops and their livestock before them - or move on as environmental refugees. In Canada - which has about the same amount of water as China but less than 2.5% of its population - the resource has been labeled "blue gold." In parched Botswana, dominated by the Kalahari Desert, water is so precious that the national currency is called pula - "rain" in the Setswana language...
...First of the new mergers was that of South Africa's Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and Botswana's Gemsbok National Park to create the Kgalagadi - meaning "land of thirst" - a 38,000-sq-km wilderness in which tourists and animals can move freely across the two countries' borders. Since the park's formal opening last May, tourist traffic has increased threefold to around 150,000 visitors a year. A Peace Parks Club offers tours that include tracking wild game on foot with experienced San, the indigenous bushmen of the Kalahari...
HANGED. MARIETTE BOSCH, 50, for murdering her best friend in 1996 so she could marry her widowed husband; in Gaborone, Botswana. The tabloids dubbed the case "White Mischief," and Bosch, a South African, hired a lawyer nicknamed "Scarlet Pimpernel" for his reputation for saving expats from the death penalty. She lost an appeal in February and became the first white person executed in Botswana. SENTENCED. PERRY WACKER, 32, to 14 years in prison for the manslaughter of 58 Chinese illegal immigrants who suffocated in the back of his truck while being smuggled into Britain from Belgium; in Maidstone, England...
...Botswana, a 15-year-old boy has a two-thirds chance of contracting and dying from AIDS. In the worst-affected countries, upwards of one in five adults is already infected. With nearly 4 million new infections last year, these numbers are only increasing. For Africa's 25 million infected, AIDS is effectively a death sentence; if nothing is done, these millions and more will die, leaving behind 40 million orphans by the year 2010. To put that in perspective, there are about 40 million children in American public schools...