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....
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...
Bank of Botswana Lifts Policy Rate to 3.5% to Calm Credit Markets
For most of the last decade, the complaint about money in Botswana was that it cost almost nothing — and that this was precisely the problem. A policy rate held near the floor signalled an economy being nursed, not one running hot. When the price of money sits that...
Court Rejects Bid to Halt PSBC Secretary Appointment
Reform of a labour institution almost never arrives cleanly. The bodies meant to mediate between the state, employers and workers are themselves contested terrain, and the first move in any restructuring is often a fight over who gets to lead it. Botswana's Public...
P558m Road Contract to Spur Rural Mobility
Botswana's road map tells two stories at once. One is of a well-connected spine — the highways linking Gaborone, Francistown and the major centres are real and serviceable. The other is of the gravel and dirt that still separates many rural settlements from that...
Events and conferences
A conference hall fills only when trade and investment are moving. As world trade shows fresh resilience, the demand that fills Gaborone’s meeting rooms strengthens with it.
Luxury consumption
Botswana sells the world a story about diamonds, and the story is only worth as much as the buyer’s confidence. When diamond-market sentiment dims, luxury storytelling has to work harder.
Regional weekend economy
Gaborone is a tank of petrol and a border post from Johannesburg, so the rand and South African markets quietly set the price of a Batswana weekend away.
Lodge supply chains
A safari lodge sells stillness and space, but its margins are written on the back of a fuel receipt and a grocery invoice. Global food and fuel prices set the floor.
Cultural tourism
A culture is not only an identity; it can be an asset on the books. As world trade proves resilient, Botswana’s heritage and destination identity become commercial advantages.
Wellness under inflation
Under cost pressure, the first thing to go is often the executive’s own health. The economic stress of 2026 is making wellness a productivity question, not a personal one.
Sports tourism
When the world watches Botswana’s athletes, it is also watching Botswana. Global attention to the country’s athletics opens a destination-marketing opportunity worth claiming.
Hospitality energy resilience
The cost of keeping the lights on is rewriting hospitality economics. Solar and energy-security deals are starting to shape how Botswana hotels and lodges operate.
Safari pricing
Safari pricing is set in distant boardrooms and currency desks as much as in the Delta. A weaker global growth outlook is reshaping what high-end visitors will pay.
Business travel costs
A trip’s cost is set long before the booking. Fuel swings and geopolitical disruption have reshaped what business travel costs, and Botswana operators feel it at both ends.
Botswana’s business-owner class
Selling well is no longer enough. The shocks of 2026 are teaching Botswana’s business-owner class that the durable advantage is in thinking like a strategist, not only a seller.
New Trade Commission Board to Drive Export Policy
Botswana’s Trade Commission named a new board in mid-April 2026 to steer trade policy and lift export competitiveness amid a push to diversify beyond diamonds.
Young operators
The advantages that once belonged to incumbents – distribution, reach, scale – are loosening. Digital tools and regional trade are handing younger founders a different starting line.
Professional services firms
When the rules change and deals get done, someone has to read the fine print. Botswana’s legal, tax and advisory firms are quietly becoming the rebound’s busiest hands.
Local manufacturers
As trade disruptions ripple through global supply chains, the case for making things in Botswana grows stronger – and local manufacturers gain ground they have long argued for.
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