{"id":199,"date":"2006-11-09T07:20:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T06:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=199"},"modified":"2006-11-09T07:20:41","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T06:20:41","slug":"forgotten-world-44-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten world (44): Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media never mention <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Botswana\">Botswana<\/a> (known as Bechuanaland until 1966), but it is one of Africa&#8217;s most stable countries, it has the continent&#8217;s longest continuous multi-party democracy, it is relatively free of corruption, and it has a good human rights record.<br \/>\nThe country is sparsely populated (the population is only 1.8M) because it is so dry (it is home to the Kalahari desert). It once had the world&#8217;s highest rate of HIV-Aids infection, has now boasts one of Africa&#8217;s most-advanced treatment programmes. Anti-retroviral drugs are readily available. However, the UN says more than one in three adults in Botswana are infected with HIV or have developed Aids.<br \/>\nBotswana is the world&#8217;s largest producer of diamonds and the trade has transformed it into a middle-income nation. iHowever, it is trying to reduce its economic dependence on diamonds with developments like safari-based tourism.<br \/>\nI once spent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/SouthernAfrica.html#Botswana\">a day in Botswana<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media never mention Botswana (known as Bechuanaland until 1966), but it is one of Africa&#8217;s most stable countries, it has the continent&#8217;s longest continuous multi-party democracy, it is relatively free of corruption, and it has a good human rights record. The country is sparsely populated (the population is only 1.8M) because it is so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}