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...
P4m Investment Breathes Life into UB Hotel and Conference Centre
A capital city positioning itself as a regional conference and business hub had been letting one of its best-located venues stand empty. The University of Botswana Hotel — 80 rooms with conference capacity in the heart of Gaborone — sat dormant while the city it...
Doubling Down: RBZ Lifts Targeted Finance Facility to ZiG1.2 Billion for Productive Sectors
Tight money and targeted credit look like opposites, but in the 2026 Monetary Policy Statement they are two halves of one strategy. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has spent the statement signalling restraint — a high policy rate, tight reserves, liquidity to be mopped...
Cheaper to Transact: RBZ Cuts RTGS Fees and Caps POS Charges Across Zimbabwe
Financial inclusion in Zimbabwe has long suffered from a quiet contradiction. The country digitised payments faster than most of its peers, yet every tap, transfer and withdrawal carried a fee that fell hardest on the small user — the vendor moving US$5, the household...
Botswana–Oman Deals Span Minerals, Oil Storage and Solar
A landlocked country in the centre of southern Africa and a sultanate on the edge of the Arabian Sea share little geography and less history. What they increasingly share is a problem of the same shape: each is trying to convert a finite resource endowment into a more...
Gulf capital access
Botswana’s energy and mineral exploration deals with Oman mark a shift: sovereign-to-sovereign capital is becoming a serious source of long-horizon money for a small economy.
De Beers capital race
As Anglo prepared changes to De Beers, African states weighed taking stakes – a capital race over who owns the company at the centre of Botswana’s diamond story.
Mombasa Port and the inland chain: where corridor efficiency is won or lost
Mombasa’s throughput nearly tripled and dwell time fell sharply. Yet trucks still face seven to ten stops to Kampala – proof the corridor’s bottleneck moved inland, it did not disappear.
Diamond cash-flow volatility
ODC’s shift toward contract sales was designed to reduce price and auction volatility – trading the spikes of the open market for a steadier diamond cash flow.
Kenya’s railway dream: national ambition meets the arithmetic of a loan
A modern railway was Kenya’s first since independence, a statement of arrival. It also became the country’s biggest debt, where the politics of ambition collides with the politics of repayment.
Interest-rate discipline
As inflation and liquidity pressures moved, Bank of Botswana policy signals stayed essential reading – the interest-rate discipline that prices every loan in the economy.
Inflation dashboard
With Statistics Botswana’s CPI and global oil and food shocks in play, price monitoring stayed central to planning – an inflation dashboard the prudent operator now reads weekly.
Beyond the freight line: Kenya’s commuter rail revival rides in the SGR’s shadow
The SGR was sold on cargo. The harder transport problem – moving Nairobi’s commuters – runs on a separate, older network now being rebuilt with different money toward 100,000 riders a day.
Bankability under fiscal stress
A budget deficit and a debt-ceiling breach raised questions about public-sector payment reliability – the quiet foundation that every supplier and payroll depends on.
Mombasa-Nairobi SGR: a US$3.6bn corridor reset that still has to pay for itself
The SGR cut Mombasa-to-Kampala cargo time from 18 days to three. It also handed Kenya its largest-ever loan, equal to about 6% of GDP, and a railway that has run at an operating loss.
Debt-cost repricing
Botswana’s rating downgrade signalled rising sovereign-risk sensitivity – and a budget projecting an economic rebound now has to be financed at a higher price for risk.
The dragnet argument: why the China-Africa story is bigger than its biggest project
Every headline picks one mega-project to judge China in Africa. The aggregate – 13,000 km of rail and road, 170 schools, 100 ports – tells a different and harder-to-dismiss story.
2026/27 Budget: Gaolathe Pivots Botswana from Diamonds to Enterprise
Botswana’s 2026/27 budget pivots the economy from diamond dependence to private-sector enterprise. What the shift means for firms, capital and diversification.
Seed-Cotton Credit: SI 23 of 2026 Unlocks Offshore Financing for Zimbabwe’s Cotton Merchants
SI 23 of 2026 lets Zimbabwe’s cotton merchants tap offshore and on-shore credit for seed-cotton purchases, with USD prices and RBZ-set settlement ratios.
Business-cycle planning
The World Bank cut its global growth outlook to 2.5 percent and warned of a drop to 1.3 percent if war fallout spreads – a reminder Botswana plans inside a cycle it does not control.
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