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Botswana–United States relations are thebilateral relations betweenBotswana and theUnited States.
According to the 2024 U.S. Global Leadership Report, 46% ofBotswana people approve of U.S. leadership, with 27% disapproving and 26% uncertain.[1] In the 2012 report, it was one of the most U.S. approving countries at 79%.[2]
Botswana and the US state ofHawaii areantipodes.[3]
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The United States considers Botswana an advocate of and a model for stability inAfrica and has been a major partner in Botswana's development since its independence.[4] The U.S.Peace Corps returned to Botswana in August 2002 with a focus onHIV/AIDS-related programs after concluding 30 years of more broadly targeted assistance in 1997.[5][6] Similarly, theUSAID phased out a longstanding bilateral partnership with Botswana in 1996, after successful programs emphasizing education, training,entrepreneurship, environmental management, andreproductive health. Botswana, however, continues to benefit along with its neighbors in the region from USAID's Initiative for Southern Africa, now based inPretoria, and USAID's Southern Africa Global Competitiveness Hub, headquartered inGaborone. The United States International Board of Broadcasters (IBB) operates a majorVoice of America (VOA) relay station in Botswana serving most of the African continent.[7][8]
In 1995, theCenters for Disease Control (CDC) started the BOTUSA Project in collaboration with the Botswana Ministry of Health in order to generate information to improvetuberculosis control efforts in Botswana and elsewhere in the face of the TB and HIV/AIDS co-epidemics.[9] Under the 1999 U.S. Government's Leadership and Investment in Fighting an Epidemic (LIFE) Initiative, CDC through the BOTUSA Project has undertaken projects and has assisted organizations in the struggle against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Botswana. Botswana is one of the 15 focus countries for PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, and has received more than $556 million since the program began in January 2004 through September 2011. PEPFAR assistance to Botswana, which totaled $84.4 million in FY 2011, is contributing to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care interventions.[10]
In 2025, an orphanage in Botswana was shut down as a result of theUSAID funding stoppage.[11]
The Governments of Botswana and the United States entered into an agreement in July 2000 to establish an International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) inGaborone. The academy, jointly financed, managed and staffed by the two nations, provides training topolice and government officials from across the Sub-Saharan region. The academy's permanent campus, inOtse outside of Gaborone, opened March 2003. Over 3,000 law enforcement professionals from Sub-Saharan Africa have received training from ILEA since it began offering classes in 2001.[12][13]
The U.S. Embassy is inGaborone.[15] OSC (previously ODC) is located at the embassy.[16] CDC is located on Ditlhakore Way in Gaborone.[17] ILEA is located in Otse, about 30 minutes outside of Gaborone.[18] The IBB station is located inSelebi-Phikwe, about 400 kilometers northeast of Gaborone.[18]
Botswana has an embassy inWashington, D.C.[19]
This article incorporatespublic domain material fromU.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets.United States Department of State.
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