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...
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...
Business travel costs
Lifestyle - Travel & Destinations · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 The price of a flight is decided far upstream of the airport. It is set in crude markets and shaped by geopolitics that have nothing to do with the traveller. With global...
Botswana’s business-owner class
Profiles - Leaders & Changemakers · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A good salesperson moves what is in front of them. A strategist asks whether they should be selling it at all, to whom, and what happens when the conditions change. The...
New Trade Commission Board to Drive Export Policy
Trade policy in a small open economy is only as strong as the institution that steers it. In mid-April 2026, the Botswana Trade Commission named a new board tasked with driving trade policy and improving the country's export competitiveness — a leadership change at...
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.
Addis Ababa Light Rail: Africa’s First Metro and the Bill After the Ribbon
Sub-Saharan Africa’s first light rail opened in 2015 to genuine acclaim. Within a decade it needed rescuing from its own decline.
Fertiliser finance
Fertiliser supply risk has threatened African food systems – and for Botswana, a food importer with thin domestic production, the financing of fertiliser is a quiet line of food security.
Oil-price hedging
Oil prices swung sharply during Middle East supply disruptions – a reminder that for an oil-importing economy like Botswana, hedging is a budgeting discipline, not a speculative bet.
Djibouti-Ethiopia Rail: When Sea Access Runs Through a Neighbour’s Port
A railway can carry a landlocked country’s trade to the coast in hours. It cannot make that coast its own.
Renewable project finance
Large solar projects in Botswana have moved from concept to signed arrangements – the point at which renewable ambition starts to behave like real, financed infrastructure.
Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway: The Export Line That Trucks Keep Overtaking
A 753-kilometre electric railway was built to carry a landlocked nation’s trade to the sea. Eight years on, much of that trade still goes by road.
Gulf capital access
Botswana’s energy and mineral exploration deals with Oman mark a shift: sovereign-to-sovereign capital is becoming a serious source of long-horizon money for a small economy.
De Beers capital race
As Anglo prepared changes to De Beers, African states weighed taking stakes – a capital race over who owns the company at the centre of Botswana’s diamond story.
Mombasa Port and the inland chain: where corridor efficiency is won or lost
Mombasa’s throughput nearly tripled and dwell time fell sharply. Yet trucks still face seven to ten stops to Kampala – proof the corridor’s bottleneck moved inland, it did not disappear.
Diamond cash-flow volatility
ODC’s shift toward contract sales was designed to reduce price and auction volatility – trading the spikes of the open market for a steadier diamond cash flow.
Kenya’s railway dream: national ambition meets the arithmetic of a loan
A modern railway was Kenya’s first since independence, a statement of arrival. It also became the country’s biggest debt, where the politics of ambition collides with the politics of repayment.
Interest-rate discipline
As inflation and liquidity pressures moved, Bank of Botswana policy signals stayed essential reading – the interest-rate discipline that prices every loan in the economy.
Inflation dashboard
With Statistics Botswana’s CPI and global oil and food shocks in play, price monitoring stayed central to planning – an inflation dashboard the prudent operator now reads weekly.
Beyond the freight line: Kenya’s commuter rail revival rides in the SGR’s shadow
The SGR was sold on cargo. The harder transport problem – moving Nairobi’s commuters – runs on a separate, older network now being rebuilt with different money toward 100,000 riders a day.
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