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The continent is pushing ahead with the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), an ambitious agreement designed to create a single market for over than 1.4 billion people and unlock new opportunities for businesses across the continent.At the...

In the year ended December 2025, Absa Bank Botswana expected credit losses reached P110 million, rising by 22% from last year’s P89 million. The significant rise was anchored on projections that households will not be able to afford monthly loan...

Since the build up to the 2024 General Election, Botswana’s political landscape has become a contentious marketplace of ideas, criticisms and expectations. Every government decision is debated, policy pronouncements scrutinised.The debates have now...

The project, known as New Botswana City, will be developed through a partnership involving the Botswana Development Corporation (BDC) and UAE-based AlBaddad Group, with the first phase centred on a 124,000-square-metre international convention and...

Since legislative changes that saw the parastatal being awarded a 90% import monopoly of petroleum products into the country, its financial performance has been on the upswing, with management expecting to declare growing dividends for the third...

The study comes as the country’s retail fuel sector faces growing concerns of overcapacity, with instances where some filling stations receive licences and open a few metres away from each other.Statistics Botswana data on transport and...

After two consecutive years of economic contraction, researchers at the Bank of Botswana (BoB) are warning that labour market conditions have likely deteriorated further, with the modest employment gains recorded in early 2024 expected to have been...

While the country has historically maintained a largely principles-driven foreign policy anchored in non-interference and multilateralism, discussions this week at a foreign policy pitso suggest government increasingly sees diplomacy as an economic...

Appearing before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Statutory Bodies and State Enterprises, BPC CEO, David Kgoboko said the national power utility was facing mounting financial pressure as it continued to sell electricity at prices that do not...

The balance sheet for WUC shows that the corporation is sitting on over P19 billion in liabilities, the bulk of these attributable to a listed bond as well as bad credit that has been sitting on the parastatal’s books. Government alone owes the...

In a cautionary announcement published on the Botswana Stock Exchange this week, the safari and hospitality group said its profit before tax is expected to increase by between 17% and 27% compared to the previous financial year.The projected jump...

The residential segment, which has seen growing valuations and rentals in the past years, particularly in the greater Gaborone area, is expected to experience a decline in pricing as developers may struggle to get affordable loans to buy or develop...

Last year, Air Botswana welcomed the Embraer E175, in what the then-management labelled as a push for regional expansion with the opening of new routes such as Gaborone-Cape Town. Now the airline says it will lease out the jet alongside the Embraer...

Long before lab-grown diamonds disrupted the market and long before younger consumers began questioning the relevance of natural stones, Mogae was already fighting a different battle, one that threatened not merely diamond sales, but Botswana’s...

In erstwhile Botswana, citizens knew they had to wait for five years to show dissent against a ruling government’s decision. In the hallways of offices, in public spaces, everyone would vow to show their displeasure after five years.This was the...