Chad’s stable rating rests on a narrow growth engine
S&P’s B-/B affirmation points to higher hydrocarbon and mining production, infrastructure investment and services—but the same concentration that supports growth also defines the frontier-market risk. Chad’s stable sovereign rating is supported by a growth engine...
Rural Council Bets on Solar and Agro-Clusters to Break Fiscal Dependence
Property - Real Estate & Development · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 Most district councils in Botswana run on transfers from the centre, which makes their ambitions hostage to a budget cycle they do not control. Letlhakeng District Council is trying...
Public Works Dominate Local Budgets as Councils Tackle Unemployment
Property - Construction & Engineering · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 A local budget is a statement of priorities in numbers, and Mabutsane's is unambiguous. The council allocated P25.9 million of its P34.6 million budget in May 2026 to the...
Local Councils Juggle Social Protection with Infrastructure Plans
Property - Infrastructure & Megaprojects · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 Local councils are asked to do two things that rarely share a budget line - protect the vulnerable and build the hard infrastructure - from a single, constrained purse. In April...
Maun Mega-Solar Deal Lights Up Energy Diversification
Property - Infrastructure & Megaprojects · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 Botswana sits inside one of the most generous solar belts on the planet, yet for decades its lights have run largely on imported power and on the coal-fired Morupule complex in...
The Middle-Market Resilience Test
A global growth downgrade reads as a headline for conglomerates and a survival test for the small firms that employ most of Botswana.
Eastern Industrial Zone: A Chinese Park Counted in Jobs, Not Just Square Metres
A Chinese-built park 35km from Addis Ababa was meant to seed 20,000 local jobs. By late 2017 it had created roughly 10,000 – a real number, and a measure of the distance left to travel.
The African Diamond Boardroom
When African states start eyeing equity in De Beers, the question stops being about price and starts being about who sits in the room.
The Gulf Capital Thesis
Botswana’s energy and mineral deals with Oman show something specific: that Gulf capital can underwrite diversification when domestic finances are stretched.
Dukem’s Wager: What One Chinese Industrial Zone Taught Ethiopia About Factories
A private Chinese developer bet US$180 million on a field outside Addis Ababa in 2007. What grew there became a test of whether Africa can host the factory floor.
The Food-Security Ledger
Fertiliser and grain risks behave like exposures on a balance sheet. Reading food security as a ledger lets Botswana see its weak positions before a shock arrives.
SADC and Japan Forge Pact on Infrastructure, Trade and Security
SADC and Japan signed a Gaborone memorandum on 9 April 2026 spanning infrastructure, trade, investment and security. What the pact means for Botswana.
Grow or Green: Where Chinese Energy Lands in Africa’s Two Imperatives
Africa is told to cut emissions and to grow, at once. Chinese energy projects sit on the seam between those demands – and which way they tilt has shifted.
The Trust Stack
Digital payments spread only as fast as the trust beneath them. Reliability and security are not features bolted on later – they are the foundation the whole stack rests on.
The Desert Miracle: Moakanyi Magazine | Vol 06 Issue 01 | June 2026
Our June 2026 issue is out. How Duma Boko is re-architecting Botswana - from a diamond-dependent rentier state into a sovereign-equity economy built to rival the Gulf - and what that turn asks of everyone doing business here. Botswana is doing something most resource...
The Local-Content Turn
The push beyond diamonds into critical minerals is also a chance to settle an old question: who owns the value, and who has the skills to keep it onshore.
Generate, Carry, Build: Reading Africa’s Power Sector as One Chain
Generation, transmission and industry are usually budgeted in separate columns. The output of each is the input of the next – which is why the weakest link sets the pace.
The Sovereign Balance Sheet
Public debt and deficit pressure are usually read as a government story. They are also a map of where private opportunity moves when the state pulls back.
The Wires Between: Why Transmission Earns Its Own Story, Not a Footnote
New power plants get the headlines. The lines that carry their output get a clause at the end. That ordering hides where Africa’s electricity is actually lost.
The AI Access Divide
AI is starting to drive trade growth, but the gains flow to markets with power, devices, skills and connectivity. For Botswana the divide is a checklist, not a verdict.
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