Cure Without Firewood: Zimbabwe Reviews Levies to Hit Sustainable Tobacco Curing by 2029
Zimbabwe's tobacco success has carried a quiet cost written into the country's woodlands. For decades, curing the leaf has meant burning firewood, and a crop that earns hard currency has drawn down a resource that does not regrow on a commercial timetable. A...
Limits Lifted: RBZ Raises Mobile Money and Cash-Withdrawal Ceilings in Zimbabwe
A transaction limit is a confidence dial. Set it low and a central bank is bracing against a run, choking the speed at which money can move when trust is thin. Loosen it and the bank is signalling that the system can take the strain. With its 2026 measures, the...
Maun Solar Megaproject: 30-Year 500MW PPA Sealed with Oman
Botswana has some of the most generous sunlight on the planet and, for most of its history, almost no large-scale way to capture it. The country has burned coal and imported power across the regional grid while the Kalahari sun went largely unmonetised — a resource as...
Cabanga Africa Launches Musika, a Verified B2B Sourcing Platform for SADC Businesses
Buyers post a requirement and receive one landed price from a verified supplier, with the border, paperwork and carrier carried on a single invoice There is a specific hour that every cross-border trader in Southern Africa knows. You have a buyer. You have a price....
Big 5 Returns: RBZ Rolls Out Upgraded ZiG Banknotes With Anti-Counterfeit Features
A banknote is a promise printed on paper, and the value of that promise depends as much on trust as on policy. A currency can be backed by sound fundamentals and still falter if the public cannot tell the genuine note from the forgery in their hand. That gap between...
Year of Exchanges: Africa and China bet ties between people outlast concrete
China has built more than 10,000 km of African railway. Its quieter wager for 2026 is that scholarships and training, not freight tonnage, decide whether the relationship endures.
Diamond-to-energy transition
In the same year diamonds pressured Botswana’s ratings, the country signed solar and mineral exploration deals with Oman – a quiet pivot from one mineral story to several.
Green Development: From Side Project to the Centre of China-Africa Energy
Solar fields in Morocco, wind farms in South Africa, hydropower in Uganda – China’s clean-energy projects in Africa have moved from the margins to the mainstream of the relationship.
Investment geography shift
Capital moved toward mining, energy and resilient African assets. The map of global investment is being redrawn – and Botswana has to argue its way onto it.
Agricultural Modernisation: The Summit Pledge Africa Has Heard Before
From the 2006 FOCAC to the 2024 Beijing plan, China keeps promising experts, demonstration centres and modernised farms. The repetition is the point – and the problem.
Energy import risk
A fuel disruption in the Middle East showed how fast an oil shock can reach African inflation. Botswana, importing every litre it burns, has no buffer except policy.
Global electronics demand
AI-related goods propped up global trade and import demand. Botswana buys that hardware rather than makes it – which is the point, and the opportunity.
Talent Development: How Luban Workshops Became a Policy Pillar, Not a Footnote
Vocational schools and training pledges have moved from the margins of China-Africa policy to a named pillar – with real numbers attached and real questions about who they serve.
Non-mining growth urgency
Budget and rating commentary kept returning to one demand: grow the economy outside mining. For Botswana the urgency is no longer theoretical – it is the difference between a rebound and a relapse.
South-South Exchange: China-Africa Ties as Knowledge, Not Only Capital
The roads and ports dominate the headlines, but the more durable transfer between China and Africa may be training, research centres and technical know-how.
Debt-ceiling credibility
Botswana’s fiscal plan contemplated breaching its own debt ceiling rather than cutting harder. That choice is a test of the credibility a country spends years building and minutes losing.
Africa as next growth engine
The IMF’s Africa chief sketched the continent’s long-run promise while warning of near-term shocks. For Botswana, both halves of that sentence are the planning brief.
China-Africa Expos: When Headline Deal Values Outrun Signed Contracts
The Changsha expo closed with US$11.4 billion in signed projects and a further US$43 billion merely announced. The gap between the two numbers is the story.
Global tariff uncertainty
World trade kept rising even as policy stayed unpredictable. For a small open economy like Botswana, that resilience is reassuring – and a reminder that the rules can still move under its feet.
Zero-Tariff Access: Why Open Gates Do Not Yet Mean Full Shelves
China has dropped tariffs to zero on 100 percent of tariff lines for least-developed African states. The harder work – meeting export protocols – is only beginning.
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