WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Namibia on Monday announced the suspension of livestock imports and other related meat products from Botswana after its eastern neighbour announced last week that it is ...

Habiba Jattani with cattle at a livestock market in Isiolo County. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard] Reducing direct government's influence and developing a data monitoring tool have been identified as ...

In 1975, a more innocent time, the European Union signed the beef and veal protocol, which granted what became of its former African colonies access to the EU beef market. That was before the ...

Botswana, a top beef exporter to the European Union, plans to slaughter 10,000 cattle to curb an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, a minister said Monday.

GABORONE, BOTSWANA — Botswana has announced it will cull more than 10,000 cattle in the country's northeast in a bid to fight an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. One of Africa's largest beef ...

Botswana has resumed exports of live cattle and beef from areas declared free of foot and mouth disease (FMD) but sales to Europe, which has tougher import restrictions, remain suspended, a senior ...

Francistown — Following an animated response to farmers to bring more cattle for slaughtering, the Botswana Meat Commission's slaughterhouse in Francistown is throttled and garrotted - apparently by ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Andrew Stein had been working across Africa for more than 15 years when he first heard of lion poisoning incidents in Botswana. In a bid to protect ...

Southern Africa is experiencing one of the worst droughts in years, with more than 40 million people expected to face food insecurity because of livestock and crop losses. Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia ...

Reducing direct government's influence and developing a data monitoring tool have been identified as some of the strategies that can help the country reap big from the livestock sector. A report by a ...