Market Movers: How MTN Reshuffled Its People Chief and Country CEOs
The hardest reshuffle to read is the quiet one. A dramatic chief-executive exit makes headlines and tells its own story; a coordinated set of senior moves across the people function and two country operations rarely does, yet it often says more about where a group...
Market Movers: How MTN Reshuffled Its People Chief and Country CEOs
The hardest reshuffle to read is the quiet one. A dramatic chief-executive exit makes headlines and tells its own story; a coordinated set of senior moves across the people function and two country operations rarely does, yet it often says more about where a group...
Botswana to Open Moscow Embassy, Woos Russian Investors for Rare Earths
Small economies cannot afford a single buyer for what they sell or a single partner for the capital they need. The diamond slump has made that lesson concrete, and it explains a diplomatic move that would otherwise read as merely symbolic. On 4 January 2026, Foreign...
Botswana’s Diamond Stockpile Doubles as Prices Slump
An economy that depends on a single commodity learns the hard way that demand, not production, sets the terms. Botswana can mine diamonds efficiently; what it cannot do is force the world to buy them at the price it needs. That asymmetry is now visible in a single...
Boko Tells Police to Innovate Amid the Emotional Toll of Duty
A police service is usually measured by the crime it stops, rarely by what the work costs the people who do it. That omission is itself a governance problem: an institution that ignores the psychological burden on its officers will struggle to retain the judgement and...
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South Africa built its economy on being the continent’s front door – this issue prices what happens when the door starts deciding who may come through.
- 01 Africa Thinks Here – Can South Africa Still Say It?
- 02 Investor Guide: Operating Through Afrophobia Risk
- 03 The Spaza Economy Field Guide
Market Movers: How MTN Reshuffled Its People Chief and Country CEOs
MTN named Mitwa Ng’ambi Chief People & Culture Officer and new CEOs for Côte d’Ivoire and Zambia from 2 June 2026 — a coordinated senior reshuffle.
Botswana to Open Moscow Embassy, Woos Russian Investors for Rare Earths
Botswana flags a Moscow embassy and invites Russian investment in rare earths and diamonds — a bid to widen partners and its resource base amid the diamond
Botswana’s Diamond Stockpile Doubles as Prices Slump
Botswana’s diamond stockpile has swelled to about 12 million carats — nearly double the permissible level — as a gem-price slump constrains output and revenue.
Economics
Botswana to Open Moscow Embassy, Woos Russian Investors for Rare Earths
Small economies cannot afford a single buyer for what they sell or a single partner for the capital they need. The diamond slump has made that lesson concrete, and it explains a diplomatic move that would otherwise read as merely symbolic. On 4 January 2026, Foreign...
Botswana’s Diamond Stockpile Doubles as Prices Slump
An economy that depends on a single commodity learns the hard way that demand, not production, sets the terms. Botswana can mine diamonds efficiently; what it cannot do is force the world to buy them at the price it needs. That asymmetry is now visible in a single...
Five waste-recovery services a cleaning company can add
Every cleaning contract already handles waste; the question is whether the business captures any value from it or simply carries it to a skip. Adding waste-recovery services is one of the few ways a cleaning company can grow revenue without chasing new clients,...
Money
BDC to Inject P1.39bn Across Strategic Sectors
Development finance institutions are easy to misread. From the outside they look like deep pockets handing out cheap money; from the inside they are forced to make a harder choice — between spreading capital thinly across politically attractive causes, and...
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...
Central Bank Sets 30 April for Next Rate Decision
A date on a calendar is not usually news. When it is the date the country's interest rate could change, it becomes a marker worth circling. The Bank of Botswana has confirmed that its Monetary Policy Committee will next meet on 30 April 2026 — the next scheduled point...
Lifestyle
Africa TravelTech Summit slips from 8 October to 26 November: what Maputo must show
A summit built on digital distribution, payments and data now has seven more weeks to fill its programme. Maputo's tourism recovery is the test case. Anyone who diarised the Africa TravelTech Summit & Expo for 8 and 9 October should change the entry. Organiser SNG...
Malaria Cases Surge as Residents Shun Indoor Spraying in the North West
Public health usually fails on supply — too few clinics, too little medicine, too thin a budget. In Botswana's North West District over the rainy season, it failed on a quieter front: consent. Between November 2025 and January 2026, the district recorded 38 malaria...
Eswatini brings its events calendar to Maputo as a second fuel wave hits the road
August's regional tourism diplomacy depends on roads and pumps that were short of fuel again by the first week of the month. Eswatini launched its calendar of events in Maputo on 10 August, at a meeting with Mozambique's tourism authorities, and Hélder Jauana,...
Botswana to Open Moscow Embassy, Woos Russian Investors for Rare Earths
Botswana flags a Moscow embassy and invites Russian investment in rare earths and diamonds — a bid to widen partners and its resource base amid the diamond
Botswana’s Diamond Stockpile Doubles as Prices Slump
Botswana’s diamond stockpile has swelled to about 12 million carats — nearly double the permissible level — as a gem-price slump constrains output and revenue.
Five waste-recovery services a cleaning company can add
A cleaning business already handles waste it throws away. Five gradual additions – sorting, scheduled collection, aggregation, event waste and recycler partnerships – turn that stream into revenue without becoming a full recycler.
Renewed Tigray fighting threatens northern Ethiopia’s recovery
International organisations are warning of renewed military escalation in northern Ethiopia, with airport seizures and wider hostilities creating new risks for transport, investment and humanitarian access.
Egypt extends 1,250MW of gas capacity instead of replacing it
GE Vernova will provide rotor-life-extension services for five 9F gas turbines at three Egyptian plants, targeting another 13 to 15 operating years.
Nigeria’s $300 million fund moves off-grid power into deployment
The Nigeria Distributed Renewable Energy Fund has reached commercial launch, creating a dedicated investment vehicle for mini-grids and other distributed power assets.
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Lesotho’s AI pilot turns policy into infrastructure planning
Lesotho is the first country to apply the UN Blueprint for National AI and Data Strategies, moving the debate from aspiration to sequencing compute, power, connectivity, skills and governance.
Mozambique in August 2026: prices fall 0.28% again, yet Tete pays 10.71% more
Mozambique’s prices fell 0.28% in August 2026 and annual inflation eased to 6.45%. Tete remains at 10.71%. What real rates and regional spreads mean for a consumer business.
August 2026 in view: six months of wallet data show volume up 51% but tickets down 21%
As August 2026 closes, the latest Banco de Moçambique wallet data cover January to June: 2,182 million transactions worth MT1.47tn. Monthly volume is 51% above 2025’s average, at a 21% smaller ticket.
Mozambique’s wallets: 7.7% of first-half transactions paid for services, 1.5% of value
In the first half of 2026 service payments were 167.3m of 2,182m wallet transactions and MT21.7bn of MT1.47tn. Transfers took 53% of the count and 53% of the value.
Tomatoes down 18.7%, transport still up 14.87%: Mozambique’s split July 2026 basket
Mozambique’s July 2026 prices fell 0.26% and the annual rate eased to 7.48%. Why the cheap items and the sticky items diverge, and how wallet revenue and bank credit show household demand.
July 2026: 406.8m wallet transactions, 26% above July 2025, with each one worth 5% more
Mozambique’s wallets processed 406.8 million transactions worth MT287.4bn in July 2026, up 26% in count and 31% in value on July 2025. Seven months already equal 89% of all 2025 activity by count.