diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1ff1e00dc..11d3b84a8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ Validator | Description
**isMagnetURI(str)** | check if the string is a [magnet uri format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme).
**isMD5(str)** | check if the string is a MD5 hash.
Please note that you can also use the `isHash(str, 'md5')` function. Keep in mind that MD5 has some collision weaknesses compared to other algorithms (e.g., SHA).
**isMimeType(str)** | check if the string matches to a valid [MIME type](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_type) format
-**isMobilePhone(str [, locale [, options]])** | check if the string is a mobile phone number,
(locale is either an array of locales (e.g `['sk-SK', 'sr-RS']`) OR one of `['am-Am', 'ar-AE', 'ar-BH', 'ar-DZ', 'ar-EG', 'ar-IQ', ar-JO', 'ar-KW', 'ar-SA', 'ar-SY', 'ar-TN', 'az-AZ', 'az-LY', 'az-LB', 'bs-BA', 'be-BY', 'bg-BG', 'bn-BD', 'ca-AD', 'cs-CZ', 'da-DK', 'de-DE', 'de-AT', 'de-CH', 'de-LU', 'el-GR', 'en-AU', 'en-CA', 'en-GB', 'en-GG', 'en-GH', 'en-HK', 'en-MO', 'en-IE', 'en-IN', 'en-KE', 'en-MT', 'en-MU', 'en-NG', 'en-NZ', 'en-PK', 'en-PH', 'en-RW', 'en-SG', 'en-SL', 'en-UG', 'en-US', 'en-TZ', 'en-ZA', 'en-ZM', 'en-ZW', 'es-AR', 'es-BO', 'es-CL', 'es-CO', 'es-CR', 'es-DO', 'es-HN', 'es-PE', 'es-EC', 'es-ES', 'es-MX', 'es-PA', 'es-PY', 'es-UY', 'es-VE', 'et-EE', 'fa-IR', 'fi-FI', 'fj-FJ', 'fo-FO', 'fr-BE', 'fr-FR', 'fr-GF', 'fr-GP', 'fr-MQ', 'fr-RE', 'ga-IE', 'he-IL', 'hu-HU', 'id-ID', 'it-IT', 'it-SM', 'ja-JP', 'ka-GE', 'kk-KZ', 'kl-GL', 'ko-KR', 'lt-LT', 'ms-MY', ''mz-MZ', nb-NO', 'ne-NP', 'nl-BE', 'nl-NL', 'nn-NO', 'pl-PL', 'pt-BR', 'pt-PT', 'pt-AO', 'ro-RO', 'ru-RU', 'si-LK' 'sl-SI', 'sk-SK', 'sq-AL', 'sr-RS', 'sv-SE', 'th-TH', 'tr-TR', 'uk-UA', 'uz-UZ', 'vi-VN', 'zh-CN', 'zh-HK', 'zh-MO', 'zh-TW']` OR defaults to 'any'. If 'any' or a falsey value is used, function will check if any of the locales match).
`options` is an optional object that can be supplied with the following keys: `strictMode`, if this is set to `true`, the mobile phone number must be supplied with the country code and therefore must start with `+`. Locale list is `validator.isMobilePhoneLocales`.
+**isMobilePhone(str [, locale [, options]])** | check if the string is a mobile phone number,
(locale is either an array of locales (e.g `['sk-SK', 'sr-RS']`) OR one of `['am-Am', 'ar-AE', 'ar-BH', 'ar-DZ', 'ar-EG', 'ar-IQ', ar-JO', 'ar-KW', 'ar-SA', 'ar-SY', 'ar-TN', 'az-AZ', 'az-LY', 'az-LB', 'bs-BA', 'be-BY', 'bg-BG', 'bn-BD', 'ca-AD', 'cs-CZ', 'da-DK', 'de-DE', 'de-AT', 'de-CH', 'de-LU', 'el-GR', 'en-AU', 'en-CA', 'en-GB', 'en-GG', 'en-GH', 'en-HK', 'en-MO', 'en-IE', 'en-IN', 'en-KE', 'en-MT', 'en-MU', 'en-NG', 'en-NZ', 'en-PK', 'en-PH', 'en-RW', 'en-SG', 'en-SL', 'en-UG', 'en-US', 'en-TZ', 'en-ZA', 'en-ZM', 'en-ZW', 'en-BW', 'es-AR', 'es-BO', 'es-CL', 'es-CO', 'es-CR', 'es-DO', 'es-HN', 'es-PE', 'es-EC', 'es-ES', 'es-MX', 'es-PA', 'es-PY', 'es-UY', 'es-VE', 'et-EE', 'fa-IR', 'fi-FI', 'fj-FJ', 'fo-FO', 'fr-BE', 'fr-FR', 'fr-GF', 'fr-GP', 'fr-MQ', 'fr-RE', 'ga-IE', 'he-IL', 'hu-HU', 'id-ID', 'it-IT', 'it-SM', 'ja-JP', 'ka-GE', 'kk-KZ', 'kl-GL', 'ko-KR', 'lt-LT', 'ms-MY', ''mz-MZ', nb-NO', 'ne-NP', 'nl-BE', 'nl-NL', 'nn-NO', 'pl-PL', 'pt-BR', 'pt-PT', 'pt-AO', 'ro-RO', 'ru-RU', 'si-LK' 'sl-SI', 'sk-SK', 'sq-AL', 'sr-RS', 'sv-SE', 'th-TH', 'tr-TR', 'uk-UA', 'uz-UZ', 'vi-VN', 'zh-CN', 'zh-HK', 'zh-MO', 'zh-TW']` OR defaults to 'any'. If 'any' or a falsey value is used, function will check if any of the locales match).
`options` is an optional object that can be supplied with the following keys: `strictMode`, if this is set to `true`, the mobile phone number must be supplied with the country code and therefore must start with `+`. Locale list is `validator.isMobilePhoneLocales`.
**isMongoId(str)** | check if the string is a valid hex-encoded representation of a [MongoDB ObjectId][mongoid].
**isMultibyte(str)** | check if the string contains one or more multibyte chars.
**isNumeric(str [, options])** | check if the string contains only numbers.
`options` is an object which defaults to `{no_symbols: false}` it also has locale as an option. If `no_symbols` is true, the validator will reject numeric strings that feature a symbol (e.g. `+`, `-`, or `.`).
`locale` determine the decimal separator and is one of `['ar', 'ar-AE', 'ar-BH', 'ar-DZ', 'ar-EG', 'ar-IQ', 'ar-JO', 'ar-KW', 'ar-LB', 'ar-LY', 'ar-MA', 'ar-QA', 'ar-QM', 'ar-SA', 'ar-SD', 'ar-SY', 'ar-TN', 'ar-YE', 'bg-BG', 'cs-CZ', 'da-DK', 'de-DE', 'en-AU', 'en-GB', 'en-HK', 'en-IN', 'en-NZ', 'en-US', 'en-ZA', 'en-ZM', 'es-ES', 'fr-FR', 'fr-CA', 'hu-HU', 'it-IT', 'nb-NO', 'nl-NL', 'nn-NO', 'pl-PL', 'pt-BR', 'pt-PT', 'ru-RU', 'sl-SI', 'sr-RS', 'sr-RS@latin', 'sv-SE', 'tr-TR', 'uk-UA']`.
diff --git a/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js b/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
index 8b56b769f..cb6613421 100644
--- a/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
+++ b/src/lib/isMobilePhone.js
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ const phones = {
'en-ZA': /^(\+?27|0)\d{9}$/,
'en-ZM': /^(\+?26)?09[567]\d{7}$/,
'en-ZW': /^(\+263)[0-9]{9}$/,
+ 'en-BW': /^(\+?267)?(7[1-8]{1})\d{6}$/,
'es-AR': /^\+?549(11|[2368]\d)\d{8}$/,
'es-BO': /^(\+?591)?(6|7)\d{7}$/,
'es-CO': /^(\+?57)?3(0(0|1|2|4|5)|1\d|2[0-4]|5(0|1))\d{7}$/,
diff --git a/test/validators.js b/test/validators.js
index 91794d521..c8b0320e7 100644
--- a/test/validators.js
+++ b/test/validators.js
@@ -7835,6 +7835,31 @@ describe('Validators', () => {
'23274560591 ',
],
},
+ {
+ locale: 'en-BW',
+ valid: [
+ '+26772868545',
+ '+26776368790',
+ '+26774560512',
+ '26774560591',
+ '26778560512',
+ '74560512',
+ '76710284',
+ ],
+ invalid: [
+ '0799375902',
+ '12345',
+ '+2670745605448',
+ '2670745605482',
+ '+26779685451',
+ '+26770685451',
+ '267074560',
+ '2670ab5608',
+ '+267074560',
+ '70560512',
+ '79710284',
+ ],
+ },
{
locale: 'az-AZ',
valid: [