General Sites "country pages"

African Studies WWW (University of Pennsylvania) Country Pages - Botswana

You may want to jump back "home" on this site, for it provides links to nearly all Africa-related WWW sites.

Botswana-Country Profile

(Mbendi Information Services) Map, demographics and business information.

Center for International Health Information

From this page one can access: Africa, Asia, Latin America and East Europe. Africa Regional Health Statistics Reports are available, in text version and portable document format (pdf) version using Acrobat Exchange.

CIA World Fact Book

Brief information on all countries of the world, map, flag. Arranged alphabetically by country.

United States Information Agency

Another good source of information and statistics.

City.Net Botswana

Links to Botswana resources by the search engine Excite.

Africa Online's Botswana Page

Basic facts and statistics (exploring Africa Online further leads to Africa related news and information on topics including business, computing, travel, sports, music, women and kids, news and chat groups).

The African Studies Subject Page

provides leads to a range of Africa-related WWW resources, other collections, etc.

Maps

Maps of Botswana (via Univ. of Texas at Austin)

(General and topographic maps of Botswana are also housed in the Ohio University Map Collection.)

InfoHub - Botswana Page

General information and travel related links.

World Travel Guides

Welcome to Botswana (Attractions, parks, culture and highlights for someone interested in traveling to Botswana).

Botswana Visitors Guide

Department of Information and Broadcasting via UNTPDC, dated, but includes some interestng links such as Oral History in Brief

An oral history as recorded on rock paintings in Tsodilo and other places in Botswana.

Ethnologue - Languages of Botswana

Includes links to other African areas and countries.

The University of Botswana History Department

includes a brief history of Botswana and other resources for the history of Botswana, as well as archaeology and museum studies. Depending on where you are located and the time of day here is a United States mirror site for these pages. Take note of the indexes.

Anyone starting serious research on Botswana should not over look the Historical dictionary of Botswana (Jeff Ramsay, Barry Morton, and Fred Morton; 3rd ed, Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 1996)

Education

Some schools and colleges include:

Acacia Primary School

Botswana College of Agriculture

Francistown Secondary School

Ledumang Senior Secondary School

Maru A Pula School Homepage

Mater Spei College

Morama Community Junior Secondary School

Shakawe Secondary School

Ministry of Education Curriculum Development and Evaluation Department

University of Botswana

Center for International Health Information

From this page one can access: Africa, Asia, Latin America and East Europe. Africa Regional Health Statistics Reports are available, in text version and portable document format (pdf) version using Acrobat Exchange.

Botswana College of Agriculture

SADC Database on Food and Agriculture

An interactive map with links to Southern African Development Community countries. Includes links to other maps, general information, and food supply and crop situation of the country chosen. This site is currently inactive, please try PoliSciCom's site on SADC.

IUCN Botswana Country Office

Natural resources management objectives, members, specialist networks and initiative.

Bank of Botswana

Official site of Botswana's central bank. Contains annual financial reports, monetary policy statements and sectoral reviews of Botswana's economy

BizWeb

Botswana's first online business community. With business directories, market analysis and other economic reports.

MBendi AfroPaedia

Africa's electronic encyclopedia of business and commercial information.

Two U.S. Government agencies with Internet sites strong on Africa content are the:

U.S. Agency for International Development

(check out countries and regions)

Fossil Energy International: Botswana

Links to business information sources on Botswana.

Mbendi's Economic Profiles

A country profile of Botswana with an economic overview and business opportunities.

World Economic Forum Southern Africa Economic Summit

African and international business leaders work together with political leaders to create business opportunities and development

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)

"An organization of free independent sovereign states which have agreed to co-operate in developing their natural and human resources for the good of all their people."

Contacts for the technology

marketplace in Botswana (NOVELL)

Botswana Archives

(Electronic Mail and Guardian, South Africa)

News and features relating to Botswana.

OneWorld News Service

Search Botswana, news by country, also note archives.

The Botswana Gazette

The first Botswana newspaper online offers Editorial, Headlines, Business and Sports news.

The Daily News

From the Government of Botswana website. Very brief but informative news with approximately six-months of archives.

MMEGI (The REPORTER) Also check the Library catalog for holdings - occasional insert: MOKAEDI NEWSLETTER.

The PanAfrican News Agency (PANA)

PANA has a partnership with 48 national news agencies. Offers bulletins on fast-changing areas/topics in Africa.

Africa News Online

Country by country and regional news, topical reporting on major issues and special reports. Dispatches are from PANA.

Also see Official Contacts and Organizations

Governance and Public Administration (Botswana)

Infobrief (World Bank, 1996)

Web Servers of National Parliaments (Inter-Parliamentary Union )

Future site of Botswana National Assembly and Parliament of Botswana.

Internet Law Library - Botswana

(U.S. House of Representatives).

Soul of Africa, Botswana

Botswana Country Profile

(Mbendi Information Services) Map, demographics and business information.

Botswana Online Page

Basic facts and statistics by Africa Informatics.

A quick reference resource on Botswana is the CIA World Fact Book

Brief information on all countries of the world, maps, flags. Arranged alphabetically by country.

African Studies WWW (University of Pennsylvania) Country Pages - Botswana.

You may want to jump back "home" on this site, for it provides links to nearly all Africa-related WWW sites.

Botswana - Encarta Online Encyclopedia (Microsoft)

Reference guide for geography, history and government.

SADC - Information Center - Botswana

Compiled by International Who's Who. Gives political overview, general data, investment opportunities, trade and commerce and company and personal profiles.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online entry on "Botswana".

Weather (IBIS)

Updated daily. Includes a satellite picture and links to useful weather sites.

We should also mention Libweb

a service providing links to WWW servers of libraries world-wide. For example, here one can access the catalog of Northwestern University Library which contains the largest collection of Africana in the U.S., including Botswana materials. Or, one can directly access an increasing number of libraries within Africa.

Statistics/Facts

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations maintains the FAOSTAT Statistics Database covering a wide range of country and international statistics.

Statistical Universe The CIS Statistical Universe has three parts. First is an index to over 100,000 statistical publications (Selecting from subject lists usually yields better results). Second, one can search the Statistical Abstract of the United States with links to the actual statistical tables and third, the site links to other Web sites with useful information about statistics. (If unable to access, a library within your region may have access.)

Current National Statistical Compendiums . (A microfiche collection of country statistical reports since 1950.)