The United States may not directly admit it, but to a great extent, the world’s most powerful military believes part of the reason it is losing allies in areas like West Africa, is because geopolitical rivals, particularly Russia, have amped up...
A banker by profession, Mma Saleshando is often media-shy. She tells The Monitor she was born in Gaborone but was raised in Mochudi. She was raised by her grandmother because her mother had her at a young age. She schooled in Mochudi all her life...
Mmegi: The recent world competitiveness rankings revealed the strengths and weaknesses of Botswana across an array of economic factors. Which areas do you think are worth harnessing in order to increase the competitive advantage of...
Joshua Sibonge, the chairperson of the Green Finance Mainstreaming Working Group, has a delightfully compact and enlightening explanation of why sustainability needs to be incorporated into the country’s budgeting process.As a principal economist...
At a time when the world is retreating from multilateralism and pushing back against globalisation, Africa and its Diaspora are mounting a historic attempt to forge closer economic, trade and cultural ties.Separated by thousands of kilometres of the...
It is generally acceptable by authorities and scholars that financial literacy, financial innovation, consumer protection and the architecture of the financial system are the among the key levers that drive financial inclusion. These four drivers are...
Here in Botswana, although unbearably hot, summer is the ploughing season; autumn, significantly drier than summer, is a season of feasting on the bounty of the soil; and spring, a prelude to summer, is the season for budding plants. Each of the...
The level of external public debt owed by African governments reached $1.2 trillion last year (P16.3 trillion), driven by the impact of the global financial crisis of 2008, the COVID-19 disaster, slowing growth, rising interest rates and the urgent...
During the recently ended Future of Mining summit, one common thread ran across the speeches of executives: the fear of synthetics. If synthetics aren’t all that, then why is everyone talking about them? Speaking economically, diamonds economically...
“I think the luck that we had in getting the refinery done was that people it would not happen.“People who were sabotaging us were less concerned because they thought ‘these guys are going to fail and they have entered into something that they...
Over the decades, the country has seen a number of brave men and women living with HIV going public about their HIV positive status and sharing their stories with the public in a quest to fight against the pandemic and also to find its cure. Those...
Depending on the point of departure and orientation of the protagonist therefore, financial inclusion can be a concept, a policy, practice or even strategy. Over the next few instalments, we will unpack this subject from different dimensions, its...
When Jeffry Moyo, a farmer in Gantsi arrived in this area in 2014, his mind was on one thing; farm and sustain his family. He had brought close to 150 goats with him. Moyo says he kept goats, but wasn’t aware that the area had many carnivores...
While diamonds remain the leading contributor to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the future of Botswana’s mining industry is clouded with uncertainty. Particularly concerning is the projected closure of many diamond mines by 2050,...
The Nigerian industrialist, with a net worth of nearly $14 billion, told the Afreximbank Annual Meeting (AAM) taking place here that he needs 35 visas to travel around the continent, an impediment to his plans for investment. Dangote’s comments...
Coming from sub-Saharan Africa, a region of Africa still besieged by political corruption, unemployment, poor water and sanitation services and general low-level quality infrastructure and policies that end up on paper, I can assert that Africa still...
The unveiling of the new tourism destination brand marks a pivotal moment in the region’s journey towards promoting conservation, sustainable tourism, and community empowerment in the respective TFCA components across the five partner countries –...
The minister was giving high-level reflections with her colleagues in the KAZA region. The theme of the reflections was 'What Will It Take To Further Strengthen KAZA TFCA Governance And Development To Ensure Conservation And Development Impacts...
Friday, April 27, 2024, marked South Africa’s 30th anniversary of the dawn of democracy. Also called Freedom Day, this day was ushered through the 1993 Interim Constitution, drawn up through negotiations amongst various political parties,...
SADC, this week, launched a $5.5 billion (P74.4bn) global appeal for humanitarian aid, in the wake of a devastating El Nino-hit summer that brought record droughts and floods to more than 60 million people in the region.The last such appeal was a...
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