Mozambique’s LNG test is now local procurement
ExxonMobil’s selection of two Mozambican companies for the Rovuma LNG project shifts attention from the scale of gas investment to the share of capability that remains inside the domestic economy. Mozambique’s gas opportunity is increasingly a procurement question....
Farm to factory: Chinese agribusiness and Africa’s missing middle
Farming - Agribusiness & Value Chains · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The pitch is a complete value chain: Chinese companies planting, breeding and processing African crops into goods worth more than the raw harvest. The recorded...
Agricultural training: A yield story wearing a diplomatic suit
Farming - Agritech & Innovation · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 China-Africa agricultural training is usually filed under diplomacy. The farmer who attends a course files it under something more concrete: whether the maize stands...
Demonstration centres: Where China’s agronomy meets Africa’s yield gap
Farming - Food Systems & Sustainability · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 A demonstration centre is built to show what is possible. A smallholder field is where what is possible has to survive drought, credit gaps and a market price....
A tropical agriculture centre: research as the slow infrastructure of trade
Farming - Agritech & Innovation · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Ports and railways photograph well; a seed bank does not. Yet the longest-lasting infrastructure in agriculture is often the least visible: the research station that...
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.
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%.
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.
Bogolo Joy Kenewendo
Botswana’s mines minister has fronted the country’s push beyond diamonds into critical minerals, framing exploration as the next chapter rather than a replacement for the stone that built the state.
Ndaba Gaolathe
Botswana’s finance minister has become the central figure in a debate over debt, deficits and the long-promised move beyond diamonds, with the 2026 budget projecting a rebound.
Producer margins
Fuel, fertiliser and price swings are squeezing the space between what a farmer spends and what a farmer earns. For Botswana, the margin is where the sector’s viability is decided.
People-to-People: The Soft Layer Holding Up the Hardware Story
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.
Local seed systems
When imported seed and inputs are disrupted, local systems look less like nostalgia and more like insurance. Botswana has reason to take its own seed systems seriously.
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