Pool-House Reform Opens the Door to More Homeowners
Public housing schemes tend to fail at the same join: they build the houses but withhold the ownership. A tenant who can occupy a state-built home but never own it is a tenant forever, with no stake to maintain and no asset to build on. The reform of Botswana's...
Wellness under inflation
Lifestyle - Travel & Destinations · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 When budgets tighten, the line that disappears quietly is the one no spreadsheet tracks: the executive's own health. Yet that is precisely the cost that compounds....
Sports tourism
Lifestyle - Culture & Leisure · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Sport sells a place before any tourism board does. When a Botswana athlete competes on a global stage, the name reaches audiences no advertising budget could buy, and reaches...
Hospitality energy resilience
Lifestyle - Wellness & Fitness · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A hotel sells comfort, and comfort runs on power. When energy is unreliable or expensive, the entire operating model bends around it - generators, diesel, the cost of a...
Safari pricing
Lifestyle - Hospitality & Tourism · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A lodge in the Okavango sets its rates against a global appetite it cannot see. When the World Bank cuts its global growth outlook to 2.5% and warns of a drop to 1.3% if...
Supplier-credit squeeze
As growth slows and the public deficit bites, payment cycles stretch – and the supplier-credit squeeze travels down the chain to the smallest firms with the least cushion.
Public-private investment
Botswana’s development ambitions are larger than its fiscal space, which makes public-private investment less a preference than an arithmetic necessity.
Kano-Maradi: A Rail Line Built to Loosen a Landlocked Country’s Knot
The Kano-Maradi railway is sold as regional integration – landlocked Niger reaching Nigerian ports. But its lead builder is Portuguese, its earthworks Chinese, and its bill near US$2bn.
Multicurrency risk
Oil and trade shocks are pushing currencies and import bills around, and a small open economy that imports most of what it consumes feels every tremor in the Pula.
Nigeria’s Coastal Rail: A 1,400km Promise Against a Decade of Delay
Nigeria frames a Lagos-to-Calabar coastal railway as the spine of corridor industrialisation. Yet the line has been launched, stalled and relaunched since 2014, its funding switching hands more than
Digital payment trust
African digital-payment research flags trust, privacy and utility as the gates to adoption – the same gates Botswana’s cashless push must clear in Gaborone and beyond.
Vivo Exits Engen Botswana as Local Consortium Steps In
Vivo Energy agreed on 17 April 2026 to sell its 70% Engen Botswana stake to Fusion Spark. Why regional ownership of fuel infrastructure matters for Botswana.
Trade-finance timing
World trade rose in April, a fresh sign of resilience – and the lesson for Botswana is that trade finance, the timing of when goods move and get paid for, is itself a competitive advantage.
Abuja-Kaduna Rail: The Safe Corridor a Single Attack Reframed
Nigeria’s first modern intercity railway became prized as the safe way to travel a kidnap-prone road. In 2022 an attack on a train tested that promise.
IMF shock facilities
The IMF has highlighted financing support for African countries hit by conflict-related shocks – a reminder that for Botswana, knowing the facilities exist before a crisis is preparedness.
Abuja Light Rail: A Capital’s Metro That Opened, Stalled, Then Reopened
Nigeria’s capital launched the country’s first urban rail in 2018. It then sat largely idle for years before service resumed in 2024.
Global growth risk budgeting
The World Bank’s downgraded global growth outlook describes a more fragile path – and for an open, commodity-linked economy like Botswana, a weaker world is a budgeting assumption to take seriously.
Namibia oil optionality
Namibia’s oil prospects could create a new regional magnet for capital – and Botswana, sharing a border and a region, has reason to plan for a neighbour that suddenly draws the money.
Addis Ababa Transit: A Metro Built for the Industrial City It Awaited
The light rail’s southern line was routed deliberately toward factory districts. The transit arrived; the industrial boom it anticipated arrived more slowly.
South African portfolio flows
Investors have returned to South African assets as inflation fears ease – and capital that warms to Botswana’s largest neighbour rarely leaves the rest of the region untouched.
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