The Bank Account That Cannot Protect Its Owner
A bank account is supposed to be a form of protection. It holds a person’s money out of harm’s way, records their identity, and gives them standing in a formal economy that a cash-only life denies. For migrants in South Africa, financial inclusion...
P558m Road Contract to Spur Rural Mobility
Botswana's road map tells two stories at once. One is of a well-connected spine — the highways linking Gaborone, Francistown and the major centres are real and serviceable. The other is of the gravel and dirt that still separates many rural settlements from that...
Ghosts Flushed Out: RBZ Orders Mobile-Money KYC by 30 June and Bank-Backed Nano-Loans in Zimbabwe
Mobile money solved Zimbabwe's cash shortage, but it also created a new kind of shadow: accounts that move value without a verified person behind them. Every unverified wallet is a gap in the financial system's line of sight — useful for laundering, for rate...
Algorithms Set the Rate: RBZ Builds Electronic Forex Trading System for Transparent Pricing in Zimbabwe
For years the question of what a US dollar is worth in Zimbabwe has had at least two answers, and the gap between them has been a tax on every business that imports, prices or pays in foreign currency. The official rate and the street rate have rarely agreed, and...
Kazungula Bridge Authority Formalised, Strengthening Botswana–Zambia Ties
Cross-border infrastructure in Southern Africa rarely fails for want of steel. It fails for want of a clear answer to a duller question: once the bridge is built, who runs it, who bills for it, and who carries the legal authority to keep it open. The Kazungula Bridge...
Digital payment trust
African digital-payment research flags trust, privacy and utility as the gates to adoption – the same gates Botswana’s cashless push must clear in Gaborone and beyond.
Vivo Exits Engen Botswana as Local Consortium Steps In
Vivo Energy agreed on 17 April 2026 to sell its 70% Engen Botswana stake to Fusion Spark. Why regional ownership of fuel infrastructure matters for Botswana.
Tobacco Buyers Reclassified: Exchange Control Order Hands Exporter Status and Offshore Credit in Zimbabwe
An Exchange Control amendment reclassifies Zimbabwe’s tobacco buyers as exporters, unlocking offshore credit and tying surrender to net export proceeds.
Trade-finance timing
World trade rose in April, a fresh sign of resilience – and the lesson for Botswana is that trade finance, the timing of when goods move and get paid for, is itself a competitive advantage.
Abuja-Kaduna Rail: The Safe Corridor a Single Attack Reframed
Nigeria’s first modern intercity railway became prized as the safe way to travel a kidnap-prone road. In 2022 an attack on a train tested that promise.
IMF shock facilities
The IMF has highlighted financing support for African countries hit by conflict-related shocks – a reminder that for Botswana, knowing the facilities exist before a crisis is preparedness.
Abuja Light Rail: A Capital’s Metro That Opened, Stalled, Then Reopened
Nigeria’s capital launched the country’s first urban rail in 2018. It then sat largely idle for years before service resumed in 2024.
Global growth risk budgeting
The World Bank’s downgraded global growth outlook describes a more fragile path – and for an open, commodity-linked economy like Botswana, a weaker world is a budgeting assumption to take seriously.
Addis Ababa Transit: A Metro Built for the Industrial City It Awaited
The light rail’s southern line was routed deliberately toward factory districts. The transit arrived; the industrial boom it anticipated arrived more slowly.
Addis Ababa Light Rail: Africa’s First Metro and the Bill After the Ribbon
Sub-Saharan Africa’s first light rail opened in 2015 to genuine acclaim. Within a decade it needed rescuing from its own decline.
Fertiliser finance
Fertiliser supply risk has threatened African food systems – and for Botswana, a food importer with thin domestic production, the financing of fertiliser is a quiet line of food security.
Oil-price hedging
Oil prices swung sharply during Middle East supply disruptions – a reminder that for an oil-importing economy like Botswana, hedging is a budgeting discipline, not a speculative bet.
Djibouti-Ethiopia Rail: When Sea Access Runs Through a Neighbour’s Port
A railway can carry a landlocked country’s trade to the coast in hours. It cannot make that coast its own.
Renewable project finance
Large solar projects in Botswana have moved from concept to signed arrangements – the point at which renewable ambition starts to behave like real, financed infrastructure.
Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway: The Export Line That Trucks Keep Overtaking
A 753-kilometre electric railway was built to carry a landlocked nation’s trade to the sea. Eight years on, much of that trade still goes by road.
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