BOTSWANA: Government forces Basarwa to leave their ancestral land
The Basarwa are suing the government over ownership of Botswana’s Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve (CKGR). Coercive relocations of the Basarwa have been ongoing since 1997 and the discovery of rich diamond fields there.
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