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Fresh Botswana, Zim border dispute looms

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Fresh Botswana, Zim border dispute looms
A border dispute is reportedly brewing between Botswana and Zimbabwe, The Patriot on Sunday has learnt. The neighbouring countries officials allegedly all declared overlapping boundaries on either side during the border line reaffirmation exercise that was conducted last year. In 2006, Botswana and Zimbabwe were once locked in a border dispute along the Kazungula frontier, thereby delaying the construction of the multi-million Pula Kazungula Bridge between Botswana and Zambia. Numerous attempts by former President Festus Mogae, then Presidential Affairs Minister Phandu Skelemani and the late Foreign Affairs Minister, Mompati Merafhe, to resolve the issue amicably with President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe failed. This publication has been reliably informed that the exercise started in 2010 and ended last year in June. However, the two countries are involved in unremitting disagreements over the border line, hence the dragging on of the exercise this far. After the reaffirmation exercise, sources have hinted that the two countries were expected to maintain the border line and put up new beacons marking the boundary line between Botswana and Zimbabwe. According to informed sources, the reaffirmation exercise started at Tuli Circle in the central administrative district to the Makhurare in the Chobe area with the sole purpose…

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