Kazungula Bridge Authority Formalised, Strengthening Botswana–Zambia Ties
Cross-border infrastructure in Southern Africa rarely fails for want of steel. It fails for want of a clear answer to a duller question: once the bridge is built, who runs it, who bills for it, and who carries the legal authority to keep it open. The Kazungula Bridge...
Kazungula Bridge Authority Formalised, Strengthening Botswana–Zambia Ties
Cross-border infrastructure in Southern Africa rarely fails for want of steel. It fails for want of a clear answer to a duller question: once the bridge is built, who runs it, who bills for it, and who carries the legal authority to keep it open. The Kazungula Bridge...
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...
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...
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...
This Month’s Issue
The Desert Miracle
How Duma Boko is re-architecting Botswana – from a diamond-dependent rentier state into a sovereign-equity economy built to rival the Gulf.
- 01 The Boko Doctrine: The Desert Miracle
- 02 Why the Bank Held at 3.5% — and Named Its Worry List
- 03 Maun: What an Expanded Dealership Really Signals
Kazungula Bridge Authority Formalised, Strengthening Botswana–Zambia Ties
Botswana and Zambia have formalised the Kazungula Bridge Authority — hosted in Botswana, with Zambia keeping the executive director role. Why governance, not
P4m Investment Breathes Life into UB Hotel and Conference Centre
Sky Clouds (Pty) Ltd has leased Gaborone’s dormant 80-room UB Hotel, investing over P4m to restore conference capacity. What the revival signals for the city.
Botswana–Oman Deals Span Minerals, Oil Storage and Solar
Botswana and Oman have signed agreements on joint mineral exploration, oil storage and renewable power. Why the breadth of the package is the real story.
Economics
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...
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....
Aterian Starts 90km² Copper Survey in the Kalahari Copperbelt
The Kalahari Copperbelt is one of the more talked-about exploration frontiers in southern Africa, yet most of its copper remains an inference rather than a deposit — a geological promise that has drawn explorers without yet yielding the scale of mines that would...
Money
CIPA Grants Six-Month Grace on Constitutions and Beneficial Ownership
Every formal company in Botswana carries a paper obligation that, for years, sat low on the priority list: keeping its founding documents and its true owners on record with the state. The Companies and Intellectual Property Authority (CIPA) has now made that...
The Future of Decentralized Decision-Making in Namibia
Decentralized decision-making is a governance approach that empowers local authorities and communities to manage resources and address issues independently. In Namibia, this model is gaining momentum as a means of improving service delivery, fostering accountability,...
Lifestyle
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...
The reward economy
Lifestyle - Hospitality & Tourism · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 An expected rebound is not the same as a free-spending one. Botswana's budget projects an economic rebound this year, but recovery after a hard stretch tends to...
Health security travel
Lifestyle - Travel & Destinations · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · Global Issue · June 2026 Crises fade from the headlines long before their lessons should fade from practice. The World Bank has cut its global growth outlook and warned the drop could deepen if...
Botswana–Oman Deals Span Minerals, Oil Storage and Solar
Botswana and Oman have signed agreements on joint mineral exploration, oil storage and renewable power. Why the breadth of the package is the real story.
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....
Aterian Starts 90km² Copper Survey in the Kalahari Copperbelt
UK-listed Aterian plc has begun a 90km2 soil geochemical survey for copper-silver in Botswana’s Kalahari Copperbelt, defining future drill targets. What it
CIPA Grants Six-Month Grace on Constitutions and Beneficial Ownership
CIPA extends Botswana’s company-constitution filing deadline to 30 September 2026 and presses beneficial-ownership filing under AML law. What operators should
Onshore Margin: What Deep Yellow’s N$393m Local Award Keeps in Namibia
A uranium project can lift export figures while its spending leaves the country. Tumas tests the alternative.
Nine Deals, One Market: How China’s Zero-Tariff Terms Reshape Namibian Trade
Namibia signs nine agreements with Beijing and gains tariff-free entry. The harder question is what it now has to sell.
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Eyes Over Africa: China’s Remote-Sensing Offer Lands Before the Centre Does
China has delivered emergency satellite imagery to Nigeria and Ethiopia and software to Cameroon. The shared cooperation centre meant to anchor it all is still under construction.
BeiDou in Africa: A Navigation System Looking for Its Ground Game
China lists at least ten African uses for its BeiDou satellites, from precision farming to wildlife tracking. What the record does not yet list is the named centres to run them.
Twenty Digital Projects, RMB 360 Billion: FOCAC’s Next Frontier Pitch
At the 2024 Beijing summit China named the digital economy its next African frontier – 20 projects inside a three-year RMB 360 billion (US$50 billion) package. The detail is thinner than the headline.
200,000 Kilometres of Fibre: The Backbone Beneath the Africa-China Story
The headline China-Africa numbers are loans and ports. The quieter figure: 200,000km of optical fibre and broadband for six million households – infrastructure hard to see and hard to remove.
Press Centres and Production Links: China’s Quieter Media Play in Africa
The visible China-Africa media story is towers and dishes. The quieter one is people and programming – journalist exchanges, training cohorts and co-production deals that shape how stories get told.
Uganda by the Numbers: One Country Inside a 10,000-Village Promise
Continental pledges are hard to test. Uganda’s share of the satellite-TV rollout – 900 villages, 18,000 households – is small enough to count and large enough to judge the wider claim.