For half a century, Botswana’s diamonds appeared to grant the country a quiet immunity from economic gravity. The stones vaulted a thinly populated republic into the front rank of Africa’s most ...

The conveyor belts are moving again. After a punishing slump that emptied government coffers, weakened trade and laid bare the peril of yoking a nation’s fortunes to a single glittering stone, ...

In a year when much of the region’s commercial property sector was still nursing the bruises of higher borrowing costs and cautious tenants, The Far Property Company Limited (FPC) has delivered the ...

The government is running out of patience with underperforming state-owned enterprises, signaling a tougher era of active ownership as poor returns, repeated bailouts and weak value creation continue ...

Botswana has broken into the top 10 of the Fraser Institute’s Investment Attractiveness Index (IAI) after being ranked the seventh-best mining jurisdiction in the world for the first time, according ...

In the arithmetic of statecraft, the airport is a strange and revealing place. It is where a small, land-locked republic decides how much of its treasury to convert into altitude, and where the ...

For half a century, Botswana looked like Africa’s magnificent exception. It was the arid, thinly peopled country that stumbled onto extraordinary mineral riches and, against every cautionary tale ...