FRANCISTOWN: The Vice President of Botswana, Ndaba Gaolathe, has warned that the country faces tighter fiscal space, weaker buffers, and a narrow growth base that isn't translating into jobs and ...
Botswana is resigned to a prolonged period of weak diamond prices with serious implications for the budget of the southern ...
The Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in South Africa and the suspected cases in Botswana is a wake-up call for farmers to harness the transformative power of collaboration in order to strengthen ...
Over the past year, policymakers in several of the continent’s major producers have advanced new mining frameworks centred on ...
The Botswana government on Friday announced an immediate, temporary closure of schools in the North East District and the ...
BOTSWANA’S diamond inventory has swelled to nearly twice its target level, preventing production increases that might otherwise support the struggling economy, said Reuters citing a paper by the ...
Sitting on nearly double its permitted diamond stockpile as weak prices and rising competition from lab‑grown stones curb ...
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Botswana, Ghana point to a new model for African mining

By Thuso TSEETSE & Reindolf OFOSU-HENEIt is often said that Africa holds close to a third of the world’s known reserves of the minerals essential to the energy transition and to emerging industrial ...