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Media and Communications: Botswana

Includes news, newspapers, journals, radio, television, news services, press abstracts, publishing and bookseller associations.

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 African & Middle Eastern Division,
Collections and Services Directorate

Africa Economies (http://www.mozambiquenews.com/s/africaeconomies/)
Links to other media and information sites.

Afrol News
(http://www.afrol.com/)
A portal link to vast resources for sub-Saharan African countries.

BBC World Service.com (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/)
Searching this site by country or by topic, offers a choice of news headlines, country profiles, and additional web links on specific aspects such as sports.

Botswana Gazette (http://www.gazette.bw)
Weekly on-line newspaper, published every Wednesday.

Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (http://www.btc.bw)
"Botswana's largest supplier of fixed-line and associated communications services, and is charged with providing telephony and other products to urban and rural centres across the country." Provides on line residential and business directories.

Brabys, Business Directory for Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands (http://www.brabys.com)
Business directories for South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, Seychelles, Botswana, Mauritius, Angola.

Committee to Protect Journalists (http://www.cpj.org/)
Searching this site results in a list of recent documents from a number of web sites concerning media activities and press freedom in many countries.

CountryWatch (http://www.countrywatch.com/)
Useful site for general data.

Global Archive -- Total Search (http://search.ft.com/search/index.html)
Searches the archive of the British newspaper, Financial Times, online version.

Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) (http://www.irinnews.org)
A unit of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. " ...pioneered the use of e-mail and web technology to deliver and receive information to and from some of the most remote and underdeveloped places in Africa, cheaply and efficiently. Its reporting focuses on strengthening universal access to timely, strategic and non-partisan information so as to enhance the capacity of the humanitarian community to understand, respond to and avert emergencies. IRIN further supports efforts at conflict resolution and reconciliation by countering misinformation and propaganda."

The Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org)
Good site for school children.

Journal of Theology for Southern Africa (Braamfontein) (http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ricsa/jtsa/index.htm)
Published by South African Council of Churches; provides tables of contents and abstracts for 1972 through 1999 issues; full text of selected articles from current issue.

Mmegi (http://www.mmegi.bw)
"Mmegi is the biggest independent newspaper in Botswana." Weekly on-line newspapers, published every Friday."

Online Newspapers.com (http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/)
"Thousands of World Newspapers at your fingertips."

SouthScan.Net (http://southscan.gn.apc.org/)
Provides news from Southern, Central and East Africa. Forecasting, and risk analysis provided by the bi-weekly e-journal SouthScan, which dates from 1986, and the Southern Africa Monthly Briefing Report (MBR) which dates from 1991.

United States. Agency for International Development (USAID) Leland Initiative: Africa Global Information Infrastructure Project (http://www.usaid.gov/regions/afr/leland/countries.htm)
Covers telecommunications: Partner countries are: Benin Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Eritrea. Ethiopia, Ghana , Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Washingtonpost.com: World (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/)
Search by country to find recent articles appearing in this newspaper.

Websites of U.S. embassies and consulates (http://usembassy.state.gov/)
Provides information on US government mission and services, and public and private sector information on each country.

Afrika.no: the Index on Africa (The Norwegian Council for Africa) (http://afrika.no/)
Links to news, information, annotated resources on African countries. Sponsored by the Norwegian Council for Africa.

World News Network - WN.com (http://www.wn.com)
Useful site for general data for all of Africa.

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