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SADC does not lack strategy documents. By the time its ninth annual Industrialisation Week opened at the Durban International Convention Centre on 27 July 2026, the bloc could point to at least four overlapping frameworks governing industrial policy: the...
China and the AU launched a 2026 Year of People-to-People Exchanges in Addis Ababa. The summit was long on symbolism and short on the scholarship and training numbers that sustain it.
Three new China-Africa joint laboratories in soil, crop pests and animal disease are infrastructure you cannot photograph – the kind that decides whether knowledge stays on the continent.
A volume cataloguing Kenya’s orchids, co-edited by Chinese and Kenyan scientists, is a real research output. Whether it builds Kenyan capacity or just Chinese citations is the deeper question.
The WTO’s leading indicator pointing to continued trade resilience is a fact. Turning that fact into a decision is the work of the thinker’s economy and the nine-section architecture built to do it.
The World Bank’s 2026 downgrade is less a forecast than a warning to founders: in a year of shocks, scenario planning stops being a luxury and becomes a discipline.
When the World Bank cut its 2026 global growth outlook, it underlined a quieter truth for Botswana: the price a country pays to attract capital is set by its national brand.
AI hardware trade is reshaping who imports, resells and trains. For Botswana, the supply-chain lens reveals where local value can actually be captured.
As South African assets draw fresh buyers, Botswana and Namibia show how small states use resources and policy to compete in a larger neighbour’s shadow.