Botswana’s President pledges to restore Bushmen rights
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Botswana’s new president has promised to restore some rights, which were taken away from the Bushmen, an indigenous tribe of hunters and gatherers found across southern Africa. This week, the government allowed the tribe to bury a tribesman who died in 2021 on the group’s ancestral land, ending a drawn-out impasse. Mqondisi Dube reports from the capital, Gaborone