News Botswana: What R5 000 buys in Botswana vs South Africa
What does R5 000 buy in Botswana compared with South Africa? We compare current grocery prices for maize meal, rice, milk, and more.
News Botswana: Botswana courts Dangote as $100bn revenue ambition drives new investments
Botswana is seeking Aliko Dangote’s backing for major industrial and infrastructure projects, including a cement plant and...
News Botswana: Botswana Develops Security Strategy to Counter Terrorism Threat
Botswana is developing a national security strategy amid fears of heightened terrorism threats. The country's minister of defense, Kagiso Mmusi, addressed parliament Thursday. "The emerging global ...
News Botswana: Four Of The Top Performances From The 2025 Botswana Golden Grand Prix
Just over a year from hosting the 2026 World Athletics Relays, the Botswana Sports Commission was in a race against the clock to ensure everything went according to plan. Despite having to lay down an ...
News Botswana: Botswana Minerals’ AI programme shifts to identify drill sites
Dual-listed Botswana Minerals says that while its AI-assisted exploration programme across its north-west (Ngamiland) Botswana licences continues to identify significant opportunities, it is moving to refine the identified targets into drill sites. The programme is now moving from large-scale data analysis into increasingly focused field testing.
News Botswana: Botswana Turns A Political Page
Botswana, the world’s second largest diamond producer, ended 58 years of single-party dominance by the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) last month, as incumbent President Mokgweetsi Masisi, who had ...
News Botswana: Botswana parliament passes gambling bill retaining proposal to lower age to 18
Botswana Parliament passes a gambling bill retaining a proposal to lower the legal gambling age from 21 to 18 and strengthen sector oversight.
News Botswana: Epiroc lands machinery order for Botswana copper mine
MMG Limited (HKG: 1208) has ordered a new fleet of Epiroc (STO: EPI-A) machinery to support the expansion of its Khoemacau copper […] ...
News Botswana: Abu Dhabi's M42 to roll out genomics program in Botswana
The 10-year contract with the government of Botswana includes a national genomics program and will digitize health records and bolster access to medicines.
News Botswana: Botswana, the country with the biggest diamonds, gets an improved 10-year deal with miner De Beers
The Botswana government signed a new diamond sales agreement crucial to its economy with the De Beers mining company on Tuesday after seven years of negotiations. The deal gives the government an increasing share of diamond sales through the Debswana company — its joint venture with De Beers, a subsidiary of Anglo American. Botswana, a sparsely populated and arid country in southern Africa, is the biggest producer of diamonds by value and the second biggest by volume behind Russia.
News Botswana: Botswana declares health crisis, can’t afford meds due to weak diamond demand
Botswana President Duma Boko has declared a public health emergency and set up a 5 billion pula (R6.1 billion) response plan as a prolonged downturn in diamond sales has caused funds for medical supplies to dry up.
News Botswana: ELLE Escapes: Botswana
It’s 5 A.M. The sun is rising to meet the Chobe River, and the ring-necked dove breaks the silence of dawn. Just as the wind catches the scent of the wild sage-filled bush, you spot him—a king on the ...
News Botswana: Why Botswana Is The Sustainable Safari Destination Of 2023
A journey to Botswana exposes one not only to new landscapes, cultures and experiences, but also to new ways of viewing the world and our place in it. A safari can be sustainable, it just needs to be done right.
News Botswana: Botswana and Nigeria Push for Practical Business Deals Under AfCFTA
Botswana and Nigeria are targeting manufacturing, agro-processing, tourism and digital finance partnerships to expand bilateral trade Business leaders say AfCFTA benefits will depend on converting ...
News Botswana: Para Sport Festival expands access to Para sport in Botswana
As part of its efforts to increase grassroots Para sport participation, the National Paralympic Committee (NPC) of Botswana staged a Para Sport Festival in July attracting over 165 participants with disabilities and around 60 coaches and community leaders who supported the event
News Botswana: UPDATE 2-Botswana holds monetary policy rate at 2.65%
Botswana's central bank kept its monetary policy rate unchanged at 2.65% on Thursday, saying it expected inflation to remain within the target range in the medium term. However, inflation is expected to drop further to 5.7% in May, Bank of Botswana Governor Moses Pelaelo told a news conference. "Inflation is therefore projected to be within the objective range in the medium term."
News Botswana: Botswana’s Largest-Ever Blue Diamond Presented By Messika
Messika is preparing to reveal a necklace with the 20,46-carat Okavango Blue at Couture Week, July 6 in Paris.
News Botswana: Botswana weighs options as Anglo picks De Beers bidder
ANGLO American has identified a preferred bidder for its stake in De Beers, leaving Botswana to decide how it will exercise its right of first refusal, Reuters quoted a government minister saying on ...
