Biosecurity Lapses Trigger FMD Outbreak at AI Centre
Biosecurity is one of those disciplines that costs money continuously and proves its worth only in the disaster it prevents. The temptation, in calm periods, is to treat the protocols as bureaucracy. Botswana's beef sector has just been reminded what the protocols are...
Malawi’s $165.9 million grant treats resilience as infrastructure
Malawi’s newly approved $165.9 million Integrated Social Protection for Resilience and Opportunity Project, known as INSPIRE-O, is best understood as economic infrastructure rather than a welfare programme alone. The project is designed to reach vulnerable households...
Lohum brings a $100 million lithium bet to Zimbabwe
Indian critical-minerals company Lohum has secured rights to ten lithium mining blocks in Zimbabwe and plans to invest about $100 million, adding a new strategic investor to a sector that has been dominated by Chinese capital. The company intends to process ore in...
Namibia’s fuel tender turns procurement into energy security
Namibia’s selection of TotalEnergies as the sole bulk supplier of petrol and diesel for the three months from November 2026 through January 2027 looks like an ordinary procurement result, but the economics are broader. A country that imports much of its refined fuel...
Lesotho’s AI pilot turns policy into infrastructure planning
Lesotho’s decision to become the first country to apply the United Nations Blueprint for National AI and Data Strategies matters because it shifts the artificial-intelligence conversation from declarations to sequencing. The August workshop in Maseru did not begin...
Agribusiness operators
Botswana’s farmers and processors faced input-cost and food-security pressure as the global food price index stayed elevated, putting agribusiness leaders on the front line of affordability.
Mining explorers
Junior and state-linked explorers became front-line players in Botswana’s push to expand exploration beyond diamonds, turning a policy ambition into ground-level prospecting.
Energy dealmakers
Renewable energy between Oman and Botswana moved from talk to signed agreements, putting a new class of cross-border dealmakers at the centre of the diversification story.
Botswana entrepreneurs
Botswana’s entrepreneurs spent the year steering through slow growth, fuel swings and tighter fiscal conditions, the same headwinds the World Bank flagged when it cut its global outlook.
Bank of Botswana policymakers
A small open economy cannot vote its way out of imported inflation. Botswana’s monetary policymakers spent the year deciding how hard to lean against price and growth stress at once.
Namibian finance leadership
Namibia’s budget has positioned oil as a future growth engine, a neighbour’s bet on a new resource that offers Botswana both a lesson and a live comparison in the regional contest for capital.
Funding Locked: How Treasury Met Its US$3.2 Billion Foreign Target Early
Treasury met its full US$3.2bn foreign-funding target for 2026/27 early via concessional loans, with no further foreign RFPs until 2027/28.
Central Bank Sets 30 April for Next Rate Decision
The Bank of Botswana confirmed its Monetary Policy Committee will next meet on 30 April 2026 to review the policy rate, held at 3.5%.
Nigeria’s Anger and the Retaliation Risk for South African Brands
Diplomatic tension with Nigeria could turn into consumer or regulatory retaliation on South African brands. How to stress-test revenue, licences, sentiment.
South African fund managers
Asset managers have turned more positive on South African assets as stagflation fears fade, a shift in regional sentiment that reaches Botswana through its largest trading partner.
Angola’s mining officials
Angola’s pursuit of a strategic De Beers stake has raised the prospect of sharper regional competition over the company’s future, with direct implications for Botswana’s place in the diamond order.
De Beers boardroom
De Beers’ ownership future has become a continental strategic issue, with the question of who controls the company carrying direct consequences for Botswana, its closest partner and co-owner.
Zeine Zeidane
The IMF’s Africa chief framed Middle East disruption as a regional economic shock, a warning that reached as far as the World Bank’s cut to its global growth outlook and, through trade, to Botswana.
Duma Boko
President Duma Boko’s visit to Oman produced energy and mineral exploration agreements, signalling a search for partners and capital beyond Botswana’s traditional Western and regional markets.
Lipalese Makepe
New ODC leadership has shifted Botswana’s diamond sales toward contracted buyers, a quiet structural change arriving just as a sovereign downgrade underlined the pressure on the sector.
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