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...
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South African asset revival
Investors have increased exposure to South African assets as inflation fears eased, a regional re-rating that reaches Botswana through the Pula’s currency basket and shared trade plumbing.
Reading the Flow Data: China Is a Quarter of Africa’s Infrastructure Plan
Official flow data shows China financing roughly a quarter of Africa’s priority infrastructure. The harder finding is that money is not the binding constraint – project structuring is.
Fertiliser transmission
Global conflict disruption has raised concern over fertiliser exports and the cost of African food production, a chain that ends in Botswana’s already import-heavy food basket.
From Projects to a Market: China’s Africa Pivot Meets AfCFTA’s Bigger Test
China spent two decades building bilateral projects in Africa. AfCFTA asks a harder question – whether they add up to a single continental market or stay a collection of bilateral deals.
Oil shock and recovery
Crude markets swung sharply as Middle East supply routes were disrupted and then partially reopened, a reminder that landlocked, fuel-importing Botswana sits at the end of every oil shock.
Solar-energy industrialisation
Botswana’s 500 MW solar deal with Oman has placed renewable energy at the centre of its diversification story, turning the country’s most abundant resource into industrial policy.
PIDA and the Belt and Road: China Funds the Corridors Africa Already Planned
Africa’s own infrastructure blueprint predates Chinese finance. The 2024 FOCAC summit promised 30 projects to advance it – the test is whether they follow the continent’s plan or Beijing’s map.
Oman minerals partnership
Botswana and Oman have signed mineral-exploration and energy agreements, pairing a landlocked diversifier with a Gulf economy that has walked the same road away from a single export.
China and the African Union: A Dialogue Channel That Outpaces Its Receipts
The China-AU strategic dialogue promises co-ordinated development governance. Yet its clearest output to date is a single building, not a shared decision-making system.
Critical-minerals exploration
Botswana has announced a push to explore the large portion of its territory that remains under-explored, looking beyond diamonds for its next mineral story.
De Beers ownership scramble
Angola has sought a stake in De Beers while Botswana remains strategically exposed to the company’s future. The contest over who owns De Beers is, for Gaborone, a question about its own leverage.
Africa CDC’s New Home: A US$80 Million Headquarters and a Lesson in Health Sovereignty
China built Africa’s disease-control headquarters in Addis Ababa after a US retreat. The pandemic-born institution now houses its laboratories in a donated building.
ODC contract-sales pivot
Okavango Diamond Company moved further into contract sales to reduce auction volatility. It is a quiet, technical pivot, and a sensible one for a producer in a turbulent market.
A Gift in Glass and Concrete: The AU Headquarters and the Politics of Being Built
China funded the African Union’s US$200 million home in Addis Ababa. Its 99.9-metre tower honours African unity – and raises a question about who builds the continent’s institutions.
Diamond market reset
Global natural-diamond demand stayed weak while lab-grown alternatives gained share. For Botswana the question is no longer just the cycle, but whether the product itself is being redefined.
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