ICT Roadmap 2030: 100,000 Jobs and Digital-First Services
Botswana built its prosperity on what came out of the ground. The next chapter depends on something that does not: the ability to move data, build software and deliver services digitally in an economy still defined by diamonds. The contradiction is sharp — a country...
ICT Roadmap 2030: 100,000 Jobs and Digital-First Services
Botswana built its prosperity on what came out of the ground. The next chapter depends on something that does not: the ability to move data, build software and deliver services digitally in an economy still defined by diamonds. The contradiction is sharp — a country...
The 4 November seven-day repo: a read on liquidity after the 39% reserve rule
Banco de Moçambique's calendar puts a seven-day operation and a Treasury-bill session on the same Wednesday, five months after the reserve ratio rose ten points. On Wednesday 4 November Banco de Moçambique is scheduled to run a Treasury-bill session of Type A together...
Child-Support Grant Launches as Kgatleng Preps Road Projects
A social grant is only as good as the system that delivers it. The promise of support means little if the money arrives late, lands in the wrong hands, or cannot be reconciled against a verifiable register. That tension — between the intent of a welfare programme and...
October 2026 credit: the first read on an 18-month reserve incentive, from MT283.6bn
Banco de Moçambique's October monetary statistics will be the earliest test of whether a month-old policy reaches borrowers. When Banco de Moçambique publishes its October 2026 monetary statistics, the number to read first is credit to the economy, which stood at...
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ICT Roadmap 2030: 100,000 Jobs and Digital-First Services
Botswana’s ICT Roadmap 2030 targets 100,000 ICT jobs, a Tier III data centre, Digital Services and Cyber Security Acts, and the BOTSAT-1 satellite.
The 4 November seven-day repo: a read on liquidity after the 39% reserve rule
Weekly seven-day offers have fallen from MT193.85bn in May to MT110.2bn in late September. What the scheduled 4 November operation will show about liquidity, and what treasurers should check.
Child-Support Grant Launches as Kgatleng Preps Road Projects
Kgatleng registered 349 child-support beneficiaries paid via the Social Benefits Payment and Reconciliation System from April 2026, as the district preps roads.
Economics
October 2026 external payments will test a US$3.44bn reserve stock and 2.2 months of cover
Banco de Moçambique's October reserve table will show whether dollar inflows can again match what banks, the state and project importers draw out. When Banco de Moçambique closes its October 2026 external-statistics cycle, the number to read first is the change in net...
Cabanga TV is live: watch Mozambique crack open its cashews
A $20 billion gas project, a growing Maputo Port, a tourism boom and the Mauritius tourism model are among the stories now free to watch. MAPUTO, 17 October 2026 - Mozambique is cracking open its own cashews to boost its economy. The cashew story, from AFP, is one of...
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...
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Child-Support Grant Launches as Kgatleng Preps Road Projects
A social grant is only as good as the system that delivers it. The promise of support means little if the money arrives late, lands in the wrong hands, or cannot be reconciled against a verifiable register. That tension — between the intent of a welfare programme and...
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...
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Mozambique’s visitor economy: Inhambane keeps guests 6.6 nights, Maputo city 1.1
The latest INE accommodation data shows where visitor spending stays, and what October's peak-season evidence must test. Mozambique's hotels and lodges received 2,133,138 guests in 2025 and logged 5,571,933 overnight stays, according to Instituto Nacional de...
Ethiopian Airlines to Nacala on 27 October: a 50-minute turn on a delayed route
Three flights a week via Blantyre would give northern Mozambique its first Ethiopian link. The launch has already moved once. Ethiopian Airlines plans to start a passenger service to Nacala on 27 October 2026, making the northern port city its third Mozambican...
Masunga Sports Complex Opens; Council Eyes Solar and Fee Review
A new sports complex is easy to open and hard to sustain. The ribbon-cutting draws a crowd; the running costs arrive quietly every month thereafter. At end-March 2026 Masunga, in the north-east, faced exactly that test as its sports complex opened for public use — and...
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Child-Support Grant Launches as Kgatleng Preps Road Projects
Kgatleng registered 349 child-support beneficiaries paid via the Social Benefits Payment and Reconciliation System from April 2026, as the district preps roads.
October 2026 external payments will test a US$3.44bn reserve stock and 2.2 months of cover
Mozambique’s October 2026 external-payments reference lands on reserves of about US$3.4bn. What sits on each side of the ledger, and what importers and treasurers should watch when it is published.
Cabanga TV is live: watch Mozambique crack open its cashews
A $20 billion gas project, a growing Maputo Port, a tourism boom and the Mauritius tourism model are among the stories now free to watch. MAPUTO, 17 October 2026 - Mozambique is cracking open its own cashews to boost its economy. The cashew story, from AFP, is one of...
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.
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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.
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ICT Roadmap 2030: 100,000 Jobs and Digital-First Services
Botswana’s ICT Roadmap 2030 targets 100,000 ICT jobs, a Tier III data centre, Digital Services and Cyber Security Acts, and the BOTSAT-1 satellite.
METIX at month seven: what October’s payment numbers must show to count as adoption
Banco de Moçambique’s METIX instant-payments system tripled to more than 11,000 transfers a day by July. The October 2026 statistics will show whether habit, not novelty, is driving that.
Government Grants One-Week Grace for Expired Vehicle Licences
President Boko ordered a one-week penalty moratorium on expired vehicle licences after slow road-transport online systems over the Easter peak in Botswana.
Press Play: How MTN One TV Bets on Streaming Across Africa
MTN One TV launched on 8 June 2026 with streaming and Pay-TV across Africa, using mobile money and flexible payment to compete on access over catalogue.
Cabanga TV is live: watch Mozambique crack open its cashews
A $20 billion gas project, a growing Maputo Port, a tourism boom and the Mauritius tourism model are among the stories now free to watch. MAPUTO, 17 October 2026 - Mozambique is cracking open its own cashews to boost its economy. The cashew story, from AFP, is one of...
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.