By Boniface Keakabetse for Okavango Express In a momentous occasion, Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi recently opened the 1 billion pula (£36.4 million) Okavango River Bridge in Mohembo.

The Okavango River in Southern Africa is an unlikely oasis and lush paradise in the middle of a hostile desert that supports and feeds an incredible abundance of wildlife. Unlike most rivers that ...

See how elephants actually help shape the flow of the Okavango River, cutting pathways through the reeds and vegetation that the water flow then follows. (water splashes) (elephant rumbles) (water ...

The Okavango in Southern Africa is a special river born in the highlands of Angola. Unlike most rivers that flow toward the shores of a nearby ocean, it instead runs inland through Botswana.

The Okavango River Basin has a network of river systems traversing Angola, Botswana and Namibia which supplies water to nearly 1 million people as well as the region's wildlife population.

The jewel in Botswana’s tourism crown is the Okavango Delta: Some 200,000 visitors come every year to see where a river that begins as the Cubango in Angola disappears into the Kalahari Desert ...

Canada's Reconnaissance Energy Africa (ReconAfrica) will start a new drilling campaign early next year near the protected Okavango Delta in Namibia, its new CEO said on Thursday as he downplayed ...

The Okavango River sustains over half a million people in Namibia and Botswana. The main livelihood activities in the basin are arable farming, livestock farming, fishing and tourism.

From Botswana, UNSW researchers have collaborated with international partners to protect the future of the Cubango-Okavango ...

The Okavango River transports sediment made up of sand and silts; the sands are the heavier sediments and can settle out in the faster flowing channels, organic silts are much finer and only ...

Five southern African countries signed an agreement Thursday to create a giant conservation zone in the Okavango and Zambezi river basins that stretches over an area half the size of France.

In 2016, Government of Botswana contracted Italian Company, Itinera-Cimolai Joint Venture to construct the iconic 1.2 kilometre-long, cable-stayed bridge across Okavango River.