Dikoloti Warns Farmers: FMD Controls Vital for EU Beef Access
Botswana's beef industry carries a quiet paradox. Its premium markets are not at home or even mostly in the region — they are in Europe, thousands of kilometres away, reachable only because the country has spent decades building a disease-control and traceability...
Young operators
Profiles - Founders & Operators · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 For decades the barrier to building a serious business in Botswana was access: to capital, to distribution, to markets beyond the border. That barrier has not vanished, but...
Professional services firms
Profiles - Women in Business & Rising Stars · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 An economy does not rebound on confidence alone. It rebounds on contracts, compliance filings and the unglamorous work of turning intentions into signed...
Local manufacturers
Profiles - Leadership & Governance · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 An import that does not arrive is more expensive than one that costs too much. Botswana, dependent on goods that travel long routes to a landlocked market, is relearning...
Commodity negotiators
Profiles - Leaders & Changemakers · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 A country whose fortunes rest on a single stone negotiates from a position of both strength and exposure. Botswana knows this better than most. When S&P downgraded...
Bankability under fiscal stress
A budget deficit and a debt-ceiling breach raised questions about public-sector payment reliability – the quiet foundation that every supplier and payroll depends on.
Mombasa-Nairobi SGR: a US$3.6bn corridor reset that still has to pay for itself
The SGR cut Mombasa-to-Kampala cargo time from 18 days to three. It also handed Kenya its largest-ever loan, equal to about 6% of GDP, and a railway that has run at an operating loss.
Debt-cost repricing
Botswana’s rating downgrade signalled rising sovereign-risk sensitivity – and a budget projecting an economic rebound now has to be financed at a higher price for risk.
Botswana competitiveness test
As South African assets drew fresh buyers and stagflation fears faded, the region’s reformers moved at once – putting Botswana’s competitiveness to the test next door.
The dragnet argument: why the China-Africa story is bigger than its biggest project
Every headline picks one mega-project to judge China in Africa. The aggregate – 13,000 km of rail and road, 170 schools, 100 ports – tells a different and harder-to-dismiss story.
2026/27 Budget: Gaolathe Pivots Botswana from Diamonds to Enterprise
Botswana’s 2026/27 budget pivots the economy from diamond dependence to private-sector enterprise. What the shift means for firms, capital and diversification.
Business-cycle planning
The World Bank cut its global growth outlook to 2.5 percent and warned of a drop to 1.3 percent if war fallout spreads – a reminder Botswana plans inside a cycle it does not control.
Year of Exchanges: Africa and China bet ties between people outlast concrete
China has built more than 10,000 km of African railway. Its quieter wager for 2026 is that scholarships and training, not freight tonnage, decide whether the relationship endures.
Diamond-to-energy transition
In the same year diamonds pressured Botswana’s ratings, the country signed solar and mineral exploration deals with Oman – a quiet pivot from one mineral story to several.
SADC trade logic
As global trade routes grew less predictable, regional cooperation stopped being optional. For landlocked Botswana, SADC is not sentiment – it is logistics.
Green Development: From Side Project to the Centre of China-Africa Energy
Solar fields in Morocco, wind farms in South Africa, hydropower in Uganda – China’s clean-energy projects in Africa have moved from the margins to the mainstream of the relationship.
Investment geography shift
Capital moved toward mining, energy and resilient African assets. The map of global investment is being redrawn – and Botswana has to argue its way onto it.
Agricultural Modernisation: The Summit Pledge Africa Has Heard Before
From the 2006 FOCAC to the 2024 Beijing plan, China keeps promising experts, demonstration centres and modernised farms. The repetition is the point – and the problem.
Energy import risk
A fuel disruption in the Middle East showed how fast an oil shock can reach African inflation. Botswana, importing every litre it burns, has no buffer except policy.
Global electronics demand
AI-related goods propped up global trade and import demand. Botswana buys that hardware rather than makes it – which is the point, and the opportunity.
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