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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has pegged a number of new entrants into Botswana’s labour market at 35 000. The IMF team now says the Botswana

Two Zimbabweans have been killed and one Motswana injured during a shootout with the Botswana Police Service in Gaborone.



Botswana’s trade balance swung into a deficit in March, data shared by Statistics Botswana (SB) this week showed.  

Botswana recorded a trade deficit for the month March 2022, following a decline in diamond exports, according to Statistics Botswana monthly trade report

Official figures show that local tourism suffered its worst year in 2020 as international arrivals dropped by 80.4 percent.

Robust demand for diamonds in early 2022 which was a spillover from late 2021, has catapulted Botswana into a surplus for the month of January 2022. 

PALAPYE - Botswana's coal producer - Morupule Coal Mine (MCM) is seeking to boost exports to cash in on soaring prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in

KASANE – Botswana’s economy is expected to get a boost from an improved tourism industry that has been on a strong recovery following a poor run in 2021 and

A public health expert, Dr Edward Maganu who is also the former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health has said that unlike many who are expressing shock at the population census growth decline results, he is not, because the 2022 results represents his expectations.

The Russia and Ukraine war could be a silver lining for the coal industry, which for years has been battling attempts to shut it down in preference for