Chad’s stable rating rests on a narrow growth engine
S&P’s B-/B affirmation points to higher hydrocarbon and mining production, infrastructure investment and services—but the same concentration that supports growth also defines the frontier-market risk. Chad’s stable sovereign rating is supported by a growth engine...
Farmers Demand Compensation for Cattle Culled in FMD Battle
Farming - Agri-Finance · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 Disease control protects a national asset, but the immediate cost of it lands on individuals. When a herd is culled or confined to halt foot-and-mouth, the animals lost belong to a particular farmer,...
Vaccination Wins Over Mass Culling in Foot-and-Mouth Response
Farming - Agritech & Innovation · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 For decades the standard answer to a foot-and-mouth outbreak was destruction: cull the infected herd, draw a cordon, absorb the loss. It is decisive and it is brutal, and for a farmer it...
Post-Mining Pivot: Selebi Phikwe Citrus Project Seeks Expansion
Farming - Agribusiness & Value Chains · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 When a mine closes, a town loses more than a payroll. It loses the single industry that gave it a reason to exist, the wages that fed every shop and landlord around it, and the...
Clarity on Goods Allowed Through FMD Zones Reduces Trade Disruption
Farming - Agribusiness & Value Chains · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 A disease-control zone stops more than a virus. When the rules at its edge are unclear, it stops trade that was never dangerous in the first place, as traders hold back goods they...
TEDA Suez: How a Chinese desert zone became Egypt’s industrial showpiece
A patch of Red Sea Gobi was meant to lure factories away from the Suez Canal’s shadow. Two decades on it hosts nearly 200 firms – and a set of questions about who the industrialisation is really for.
The Resilience Margin
Global crude markets are mired in discounts as Middle East supply ramps up. For Botswana, the lesson is a margin that survives fuel and currency shocks.
The Contract Sales Lesson
Moving diamond sales from the auction floor to fixed contracts is a quiet decision with a loud lesson about where revenue stability comes from.
Industrial Parks as Gateways: Ethiopia’s FDI Bet, Measured at the Exit
Ethiopia’s parks pulled in record FDI and tens of thousands of jobs. The IFC’s diagnostic is admiring and wary in the same breath: the gateway works, but the road past it is congested.
The Public Works Economy
When debt tightens and revenue softens, public spending stops being a budget line and becomes a question about the shape of the economy.
Huajian in Ethiopia: A Shoemaker as the Test Case for Industrial Linkage
A Chinese shoe firm exporting Ethiopian-made footwear to the US and Europe is the model linkage story – and the clearest evidence of how hard local sourcing actually is.
The Fertiliser Multiplier
A change in the price of fertiliser does not stay in the field. It travels into food, into wages and onto the shelf.
The Inventory Shock Doctrine
Global stockpiling looks like panic from the outside. Read closely, it is a masterclass in buying before the disruption arrives.
Private Chinese Parks: Ethiopia’s Export Bet, Built Largely by Outsiders
Ethiopia’s drive to become Africa’s top manufacturer leans on private, often Chinese-owned zones. They have delivered factories and exports – and a dependence on foreign developers to build them.
The Regional Beta
Botswana does not trade on the same exchanges as South Africa, yet South African sentiment moves through its trade and its psychology all the same.
Learning Zones: Chinese Parks Transfer Plenty of Jobs, Less of the Knowledge
Chinese zones in Ethiopia are pitched as classrooms for industrialisation. The evidence shows they teach hands well and managers rarely, leaving the deeper learning largely unrealised.
The Resource-to-Services Bridge
Mining demand is usually counted from the day production starts. The economic activity around exploration begins years earlier.
The Formalisation Flywheel
Formalisation usually arrives as a stick. Digital VAT, payments and compliance hint at a version that arrives as plumbing instead.
China’s Zone Playbook: An Export, but One That Resists Copy-Paste
China turned four coastal experiments into a growth engine and now markets the recipe to Africa. The World Bank’s own verdict is that the method travels far better than the results.
The Middle-Market Resilience Test
A global growth downgrade reads as a headline for conglomerates and a survival test for the small firms that employ most of Botswana.
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