Critical minerals have turned the Lobito power gap into a strategic asset
The United States’ focus on energy constraints along the Lobito Corridor shows that copper and cobalt logistics cannot scale without equally serious investment in power. The Lobito Corridor’s next bottleneck may not be rail. It may be electricity. CNBC Africa reported...
Generate, Carry, Build: Reading Africa’s Power Sector as One Chain
Property - Infrastructure & Megaprojects · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Power generation, transmission and clean industrialisation are usually treated as three separate stories with three separate budgets and three separate...
The Wires Between: Why Transmission Earns Its Own Story, Not a Footnote
Property - Construction & Engineering · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Generation makes the news; transmission makes the footnote. Yet a megawatt that cannot reach a load is a megawatt wasted, and China's own white paper figures...
Solar for the Off-Grid: 50,000 Households Against a Continental Dark Map
Property - Real Estate & Development · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The promise is specific: at least 50,000 families in regions with no main-grid access, powered by solar. The funding behind it is equally specific - 100 million...
De Aar’s Turbines: A Chinese Wind Flagship in South Africa’s Dry Heart
Property - Construction & Engineering · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 A flagship is meant to be the first of a fleet. In South Africa's arid Northern Cape, the De Aar wind farm carries that billing: according to FOCAC summit...
Agri-digital payments
A cattle sale agreed by handshake still has to be paid, and cash on a remote road is its own risk. Trusted digital payment rails let Botswana’s farmers and traders settle deals they can verify.
10,000 Villages: How a TV Pledge Became Africa’s Largest Media-Access Test
A decade after Xi Jinping pledged satellite TV for 10,000 African villages, nearly all are connected. The screens arrived; the harder questions are about who controls what they show.
Beef traceability
Botswana’s beef earns its premium on trust as much as on taste. As export markets demand verifiable, disease-free supply chains, traceability becomes the country’s licence to keep selling.
Cold-chain investment
A harvest with nowhere to be stored is a harvest sold at the buyer’s price. Cold-chain investment lets Botswana farmers hold their produce until the market, not the spoilage clock, decides.
Training at Scale: China’s Bet on African Technicians and Officials
China is training African technicians and officials in the tens of thousands, with a 2025 target near 20,000. The pledges count people precisely and price them not at all.
Farm insurance
A single drought, outbreak or price crash can erase years of a Botswana farmer’s work. Agricultural insurance is the quiet infrastructure that lets a farm fail a season without failing for good.
Engineering Academies: FOCAC Reframes Schools as Workforce Infrastructure
At the 2024 FOCAC Summit China pledged an engineering technology academy, ten new Luban Workshops and about 60,000 training places. The framing treats schools as infrastructure.
Feed-cost pressure
The price of a Botswana chicken is decided partly in foreign grain markets. When global grain and fuel risks rise, feed costs climb and poultry, beef and dairy producers feel it first.
Horticulture import substitution
Botswana imports much of what it eats, so when global food prices climb, the country pays at the till for vegetables it could grow at home. Local horticulture turns that vulnerability into a plan.
Future of Africa Plan: China Sets a 20,000-Trainee Target for 2025
China has put a number on its African skills ambition: about 20,000 people trained in 2025. The plan is precise where it counts heads and vague where it counts money.
Agri-logistics
A beast that fattens in Ghanzi still has to reach a market in Lobatse, and every fuel shock taxes that journey. Agri-logistics is where global oil prices quietly become a Botswana farm cost.
Bank of Botswana Holds Rate at 3.5% as Inflation Risks Loom
The Bank of Botswana held its policy rate at 3.5% on 26 Feb 2026 for a second meeting, flagging electricity-tariff and foot-and-mouth disease inflation risks.
Djibouti’s Luban Workshop: Africa’s First, Built Beside a Railway
Africa’s first Luban Workshop opened in a country with almost no manufacturing base. Its classroom is a railway, and its first graduating class numbered 24.
Irrigation economics
Every litre of water a farm wastes is a litre bought twice in a drier, costlier world. As global growth forecasts soften, water-efficient farming stops being green and becomes plain economics.
Input financing
When fertiliser and fuel prices swing without warning, a Botswana farmer’s biggest enemy is the calendar. Input financing is about reaching capital before the planting window closes.
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