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Botswana’s reflections, participation at TABEF 2025

Partnerships: Turkey’s ambition to grow its bilateral trade with Africa to $75 billion presents Botswana with new opportunities PIC: DEIK
Partnerships: Turkey’s ambition to grow its bilateral trade with Africa to $75 billion presents Botswana with new opportunities PIC: DEIK

ISTANBUL: Botswana for the first time joined the rest of the continent as Africa converged in Istanbul last week for the fifth Turkey–Africa Business and Economic Forum (TABEF).

TABEF, a prestigious forum, brings together prominent representatives of public and private sector actors from both Africa and Turkey.

Botswana’s Minister of Trade and Entrepreneurship, Tiroeaone Ntsima, led a delegation of two officials including Director of International Business, Malebogo Kote and Maureen Chirengendure, principal commercial officer.

Editor's Comment
Boko should stop the fighting and start the delivering

With his theme of 'Delivering on Our Promise, One Step at a Time', he sought to project an image of a focused, determined leader building a new ‘Rome’. Sadly, parts of his speech were not about laying bricks, but about settling old scores.It is deeply worrying that a head of government would use such a pivotal national address to launch another bitter broadside against the media and his political detractors. His portrayal of the...

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