Omicron sublineages likely evade vaccines, natural immunitySouth Africa is seen as a key harbinger of how the omicron variant and its sublineages are likely to play out in the rest of the world. Sou...
Omicron: Why the WHO designated it a variant of concernThe World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the B.1.1.529 lineage of Sars-CoV-2, thought to have emerged in southern Africa, is ...
Botswana unearths 1,174-carat stone, second huge diamond in weeksLast month Botswanan diamond firm Debswana said it had recovered the "third largest" stone in the world.
Diamond believed to be world's third largest unearthed in Botswana, pictures of 1,098-carat stone goes viralThe biggest diamond ever discovered in the world was the 3,106-carat Cullinan, found in South Africa in 1905.
Botswana says found world's 'third largest' diamondThe "rare and extraordinary stone... means so much in the context of diamonds and Botswana," she said. "It brings hope to the nation that i...