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Government Grants One-Week Grace for Expired Vehicle Licences
President Boko ordered a one-week penalty moratorium on expired vehicle licences after slow road-transport online systems over the Easter peak in Botswana.
Cabanga TV is live: watch the Namibian grower who sells at the Windhoek market every week
Green hydrogen at Walvis Bay, a new N$200 million port terminal, a start-up serving five countries and farming in the desert are among the stories now free to watch. WINDHOEK, 17 October 2026 - A small greenhouse, five crops and a place at the Windhoek market every...
MUSIKA launches coordinated Sourcing for Namibian Businesses
The platform gives buyers a trade desk for sourcing South African products and organising the transaction through delivery. Musika launches today for Namibian businesses buying from South Africa. Buyers can submit specifications, quantities, delivery destinations and...
Gaborone’s fibre ring shows what digital infrastructure can unlock
The Gaborone Metro Ring is no longer a launch story; its significance is what lower-cost, high-capacity fibre can do for enterprise, innovation and Botswana’s digital economy.
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.