Gaborone has mushroomed into a well-run capital, and the university has 500 lecturers on its staff.

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It's all a far cry from growing up in a dusty rural village on the outskirts of Gaborone, Botswana's capital.

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Obama joined young leaders to paint a mural at the future site of the Baylor Youth Center in Gaborone, Botswana.

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De Beers has moved its rough diamond sorting and selling operations from London, its home for 80 years, to Gaborone, Botswanna, two months ahead of schedule.

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MCB's Gaborone plant as at similar factories in South Africa.

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Although Botswana's market is tiny its 1.5m people buy only about 700 cars a month Gaborone is closer to Johannesburg, Africa's biggest concentration of motorists, than are most South African cities.

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