Botswana

In ten years, Bulgaria has climbed three positions in the Prosperity Index of the London-based Legatum Institute, but bad scores in the management, health care and personal freedom sub-indices leave the country at the bottom of the ranking among EU member-states.

A massive diamond valued at more than $70 million will go under the hammer in London next month, the Sotheby's auction house said May 4.
 
Known as "Lesedi la Rona," it was found nine months ago in Botswana by the Lucara Diamond Corp.

Greece ranked 29th among the best countries in the world for visiting, according to the readers of British newspaper Telegraph.

It is also chosen as the second most popular tourist destination in Mediterranean by British travelers.

A 1,111 carat "high quality diamond" has been discovered at a mine in Botswana, said to be the biggest find in more than a century, according to the mine company.
 
The gem, only second in size to the Cullinan diamond which was unearthered in South Africa in 1905, was mined by Lucara Diamond Corp.
 

A small Canadian diamond company has announced the discovery of the world’s second biggest gem quality diamond that has ever been recovered, as Telegraph reports.

According to Lucara Diamond Corp the 1,111 carat stone was found at its Karowe mine in north-central Botswana.

Ten Eritrean national football players seeking asylum in Botswana should be deported, Botswana's security minister said on Oct. 15, a decision their lawyer said he would challenge in court.

The Eritreans refused to board their plane home on Oc.t 14, the latest in a series of defections by athletes from a country under investigation by the United Nations for human-rights violations.

Thessaloniki Motorcyclist Ilias vrochidis, aged 31, started a journey in July 2013 aimed at exploring Balkan and African countries so as to deliver letters to the families and friends of migrants who have come to Greece. His goal was to raise public awareness on migrant issues.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed on Tuesday the Bulgarian Petko Draganov as his Special Representative and Head of the UN Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia (UNRCCA) in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.

Draganov succeeds the Slovak Miroslav Jenca, who was recently appointed as Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs, the site of UNRCCA informs.

Namibia's outgoing president, Hifikepunye Pohamba, has won the Mo Ibrahim Foundation's $5 million African leadership prize, an award meant to recognise good governance that has been presented only three times in eight years.
   

Spain's scandal-hit royal family looked to a new king- and queen-in-waiting to mend its fortunes as King Juan Carlos called an end to his 39-year reign on June 2.

The 76-year-old monarch said he would hand over the crown to his son Prince Felipe, 46, hoping to revitalise the palace and the country after years of scandal and recession.,