Lesotho’s AI pilot turns policy into infrastructure planning
Lesotho’s decision to become the first country to apply the United Nations Blueprint for National AI and Data Strategies matters because it shifts the artificial-intelligence conversation from declarations to sequencing. The August workshop in Maseru did not begin...
Lesotho’s AI pilot turns policy into infrastructure planning
Lesotho’s decision to become the first country to apply the United Nations Blueprint for National AI and Data Strategies matters because it shifts the artificial-intelligence conversation from declarations to sequencing. The August workshop in Maseru did not begin...
Mozambique in August 2026: prices fall 0.28% again, yet Tete pays 10.71% more
Two falling months have taken 0.57 points off the year's price climb, and a saver's deposit rate now sits below inflation. Mozambique's consumer prices fell 0.28% in August 2026, the second monthly decline in a row after July's 0.26%, and the annual rate dropped to...
August 2026 in view: six months of wallet data show volume up 51% but tickets down 21%
The month is not yet published; the first half of the year already gives the yardstick to read it by. On the last day of August 2026, the freshest official data on how Mozambique pays cover January to June. In that half-year the country's electronic money wallets...
Mozambique’s wallets: 7.7% of first-half transactions paid for services, 1.5% of value
With 26.3 million e-money subscriptions against 6.7 million bank accounts, the useful number is what the accounts are used for. Mozambique's e-money wallets recorded 2,182 million transactions in the first half of 2026, and only 167.3 million of them, 7.7%, paid for a...
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.
July 2026: Mozambique’s wallet agents reach 499,616, 384 short of half a million
Banco de Moçambique data for July 2026: 499,616 e-money agents, a record 406.8m wallet transactions worth MT287.4bn, and 389 agents for every ATM.
Blue Economy growth agenda across SADC: regional demand and access and what comes next
Ask a household in Windhoek, Maputo or Dar es Salaam whether SADC's blue economy agenda has changed anything about the fish on their plate or the beach holiday they can afford, and the honest answer, as of this week, is not yet. The 3rd Africa Blue Economy Week,...
Orange Botswana Pledges P1m to the Golden Grand Prix
Orange Botswana has pledged P1m to sponsor the FNB Botswana Golden Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour meeting set for 26 April 2026.
Decree 36/2026: Mozambique swaps one telecom licence regime for unified and class tiers
Decree 36/2026 replaces Decree 26/2017 with unified and class licences, a 15-day target for class applications and a first dedicated satellite regime. What it changes for operators and new entrants.
Twenty Digital Projects, RMB 360 Billion: FOCAC’s Next Frontier Pitch
At the 2024 Beijing summit China named the digital economy its next African frontier – 20 projects inside a three-year RMB 360 billion (US$50 billion) package. The detail is thinner than the headline.
200,000 Kilometres of Fibre: The Backbone Beneath the Africa-China Story
The headline China-Africa numbers are loans and ports. The quieter figure: 200,000km of optical fibre and broadband for six million households – infrastructure hard to see and hard to remove.
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...
Mozambique’s June 2026: prices up 0.20%, yet the basket is 5.4% dearer than in December
June 2026 prices rose 0.20% after May’s 2.32% jump, lifting the annual rate to 7.51%. Payment values, retail activity and credit show where real demand is holding and where it is not.
June 2026: MT276.6bn through Mozambique’s wallets as each deposit feeds 2.3 transfers
Mozambique’s wallets moved MT276.6bn in June 2026, the highest month of the year so far, while deposits fell to 94.4 million. Transfers per deposit reached 2.27. What velocity means for payments.
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