Crumbling South African Rail Prompts Botswana to Forge New Route
December 19th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, a look at a proposed new rail route from Botswana through Namibia: South African logistics firm is struggling to transport goods Botswana gets unsolicited bids to forge rail through Namibia Botswana has received unsolicited bids from investors to build a rail line to a Namibian port that will help avoid South Africa and […]
Read more »Chinese Backed MMG Plans to Buy Copper Mine in Africa for $1.88 Billion
November 21st, 2023
Via the Wall Street Journal, a report that MMG, which is nearly 68%-owned by state-owned China Minmetals, plans to buy the Khoemacau mine in northwest Botswana: Chinese government-backed mining company MMG is acquiring a copper mine in southern Africa for almost $1.88 billion as it looks to bolster its stockpile of a metal that is in […]
Read more »Diamonds Are Not Forever: Botswana Plans A Post-Diamond Future
July 27th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at Botswana’s efforts to plan for a post-diamond future: With the end in sight for its mineral success story, Botswana is in a race against time to transition away from the gems that made it rich. Diamonds, it turns out, aren’t forever. In fact, the world’s richest deposit […]
Read more »How the West Can Forestall Green OPECs
July 9th, 2023
Courtesy of Semafor, commentary on how the West could head off the creation of new OPEC-like producer cartels for critical resources such as lithium by inviting mineral-rich Latin American and African nations to join the existing Minerals Security Partnership (MSP): Western countries should head off the creation of new OPEC-like producer cartels for critical resources […]
Read more »Botswana Digital & Innovation Hub
June 12th, 2023
Botswana has a $60 million digital and innovation HUB (BDIH), called the BDIH Science and Technology Park, which is located strategically on a 57 hectare site, near the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport and adjacent to the Diamond Technology Park in Gaborone. The focal point of the Hub is to provide state-of-the art buildings and […]
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