Boko hunts for new deals in old ties

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Sealing ties: Boko and other senior officials met the Al Mansour team in August. Botswana established relations with Qatar in 2006 and is now leveraging the mutual interests

The Western states who traditionally partnered the country’s development, are putting up walls such as tariffs and visas, as part of ‘deglobalisation’. With billions required under NDP12, President Boko is walking down older trails to uncover new deals, writes MBONGENI MGUNI

Imagine your typical homestead any rural area. In front of the main entrance, without trying too hard, you can tell who the homeowners’ favourite neighbours are, by observing the most used dirt track. There may be some other tracks where grass has grown over and that have become indistinct through low usage over the years, but nonetheless the fact that they are there shows that there are neighbours somewhere in that direction too.

President Duma Boko appears to be following such paths.

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