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Botswana opts to make land owners of wives with new law

Botswana women

Gaborone, BostwanaThomson Reuters Foundation A wife in Botswana can now own land alongside her husband, President Mokgweetsi Masisi said on Thursday in a boost for women that rights groups called long overdue. Prior to his amendment, the 2015 Land Policy stopped wives from owning land if their husbands already had some.  A female member of […]