A lesbian couple in Botswana has launched a court case to legalize same-sex marriage, challenging the country's Marriage Act. Hearings are set for July, with opposition from the government and religious groups. Botswana decriminalized same-sex relations in 2019.
Country with a population of just 2.5m credits investment in young athletes for its rise but this progress is under threatIt was a fairytale ending to the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone. In the final strait, Collen Kebinatshipi surged past South Africa’s Zakithi Nene to win the men’s 4x400m relay for Botswana. The home crowd, a sea of light blue, went wild.“It means so many things to us,” Letsile Tebogo, 22, the reigning 200m Olympic champion, who ran the second leg, told reporters afterwards. “Not just the team … but for the people that always cheer for us behind the TV. Now they had that experience to see first-hand how much effort, how much pressure, how much we give for them.” Continue reading...
Seconda giornata delle World Relays a Gaborone, in Botswana, dove le staffette italiane 4x100 maschile e mista cercano la qualificazione per il Mondiale di Pechino 2025. I quarteti sono composti da Eduardo Longobardi, Filippo Randazzo, Fausto Desalu e Chituru Ali (uomini), e Junior Tardioli, Elisa Valensin, Andrea Bernardi e Zaynab Dosso (mista). Ieri si erano già qualificate la 4x400 mista, la 4x100 femminile e la 4x400.
