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...
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...
Botswana Launches State-Owned Explorer to Unearth Critical Minerals
Botswana is, on the conventional measure, one of the most thoroughly mapped mineral economies in Africa — and almost none of that map has been drawn. The contradiction is built into the country's success. Decades of diamond wealth concentrated the entire exploration...
Digital & Innovation Hub Taps Phetlhu to Lead Tech Transformation
Botswana does not lack innovation policy. It lacks the harder thing: the operational muscle to turn policy into shipped products, funded ventures and commercial outcomes. Hubs and strategies are easy to announce and difficult to run, which is why the people chosen to...
Deadline Extension Buys Time for Corporate Law Compliance
Intellectual - Intellectual Property & Brand · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · June 2026 A compliance deadline is a forcing function, and forcing functions only work if firms can actually meet them. CIPA conceded as much, extending the deadline for firms to file...
Farming as industry
Food shocks keep proving the same point: agriculture is not a soft social sector but a strategic industry. The Botswana that treats farming as infrastructure weathers the next shock better.
Climate-smart funding
Global lenders are steering capital toward climate-resilience projects that are bankable. For Botswana the lesson is sharp: a good idea is not enough – the project has to be ready to finance.
Smallholder aggregation
Buyers want reliable volumes, not scattered surpluses. That preference is quietly pushing Botswana’s smallholders toward cooperatives – and toward tables they could never reach alone.
Precision agriculture
Precision agriculture promises to do more with less – fewer inputs, better yields. For a water-scarce country like Botswana, that promise is less a luxury than a survival skill.
Meat value chains
Regional food-security partnerships can open processing opportunities. For Botswana, a beef economy seeking to add value, the meat value chain is where regional demand and local ambition meet.
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.
Farm-to-market corridors
Transport infrastructure and fuel costs decide whether a Botswana farm turns a profit. As world trade shows fresh resilience, the corridor from farm to market is where margins are won or lost.
Transport and Food Push Inflation to 4.2% in March
Botswana’s headline inflation rose to 4.2% in March 2026 from 4.0%, with the trimmed mean at 4.8% signalling more durable underlying price pressure.
Livestock vaccine market
As global food prices move and disease risk persists, demand for veterinary products strengthens. For a beef economy like Botswana’s, animal health is not a cost line – it is the market.
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.
Agro-processing finance
Botswana’s 2026 budget projects an economic rebound this year. Diversification beyond diamonds runs through value addition – and agro-processing finance is where that ambition meets the farm.
SBC House at Union Vale: A Broadcasting Grant That Took Six Years
A China-funded broadcasting headquarters for Seychelles broke ground in 2019 and handed over in 2025. The long road from grant to keys is the real infrastructure story.
Drought-ready production
The World Bank has cut its global growth outlook and warned of a deeper drop if war fallout spreads. For Botswana farming, the lesson points one way: production built to withstand drought.
Food retail contracts
Schools, hotels and retailers all need reliable local suppliers. As food prices move worldwide, Botswana’s institutional buyers are a steady market hiding in plain sight for producers who deliver.
Fertiliser procurement pools
Global food and input prices keep moving. Botswana farmers buying fertiliser one bag at a time pay the shock in full – which is why cooperative purchasing and storage reward those who pool.
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