Botswana’s economy rebounded in the third quarter of 2025, expanding to its fastest pace in five years after contracting in ...

Botswana is weighing a “golden passport” scheme that would grant citizenship to foreign investors in exchange for a one-off ...

Botswana, a landlocked and largely desert country in Southern Africa, transformed its economic fortunes after the discovery ...

Botswana’s diamond-led growth model is losing strength as weak diversification, limited access to finance, rising governance ...

The IMF finds that climate change and electricity subsidies are increasingly undermining Botswana’s growth and public ...

(Bloomberg) -- A new deal Botswana signed this month with De Beers will give it access to more diamonds and help it secure 10 billion pula ($762 million) in development funding, President Mokgweetsi ...

Diamonds are losing their sparkle, at least for the stones dug out of the ground. The rapid development of lab-grown synthetic diamonds increasingly looks like it will deliver a death blow to diamond ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — The Botswana government signed a new diamond sales agreement crucial to its economy with the De Beers mining company on Tuesday after seven years of negotiations. The deal ...

In October 2025, the international ratings agency Moody’s downgraded Botswana’s sovereign credit rating from “A3” to “BAA1”.

GABORONE (Reuters) -Botswana's economy is forecast to grow 3.3% this year after a contraction in 2024, due to an expected recovery in the global diamond market, its finance minister said on Monday, ...