The government has said the ongoing battle against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is placing significant pressure on the ...

Botswana’s beef industry is under mounting pressure as foot-and-mouth disease disrupts exports, closes key slaughter facilities and threatens rural incomes in a country where cattle remain central to ...

Botswana is intensifying efforts to control a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak while managing investigations into ...

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 investigating a suspected ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GABORONE, BOTSWANA — Botswana has put restrictions on the movement of cloven-hoofed animals in the northeast of the country after an incursion of buffalo from Zimbabwe put cattle at risk of ...

GABORONE, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi said Wednesday that the country will slaughter at least 10,000 cattle in the northeast area to stop the foot and mouth disease from ...

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.

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 ...