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Botswana strike closes hospitals

Most of Botswana's clinics have closed and the main hospital in the capital, Gaborone, is barely functioning due to a civil service strike over salaries.

Earlier this week, the government sacked doctors, nurses, pharmacists and cleaners who had joined the five-week strike in defiance of a court order.

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