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The Botswana Government is refusing to open up to scrutiny by Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and Extractive Industries Transparency Imitative

The latest figures released by Statistics Botswana this week shows that cereals were the leading food imported to Botswana during the month of May 2023.

Botswana’s export revenues rose from P6, 525.7 million (around P6.5 billion) in April 2023 to P8, 537.5 million (around P8.5 billion) in May 2023, according to the recent International Merchandise Trade Statistics report released by Statistics Botswana this week.

Statistics Botswana (SB) Statistician General, Dr. Burton Mguni has joined a growing chorus of voices against poverty data deprivation and says a

The number of people in Botswana who experienced severe food insecurity increased to 26.16 percent in 2022 from 20.16 percent recorded in 2021, showed the data of Statistics Botswana released Wednesday. According to the national statistical service, the percentage of the population that experienced severe food insecurity was 22.20 percent…

GABORONE, July 19 (Xinhua) -- The number of people in Botswana who experienced severe food insecurity increased to 26.16 percent in 2022 from 20.16 percent recorded in 2021, showed the data of Statistics Botswana released Wednesday.

The number of air passengers reported at the country’s airports rose by 44% in the first three months of the year compared to the same period last year, although longer trends show arrivals and departures are still below pre-pandemic levels.

A further breakdown of the CPI data shows that the main drivers to the annual inflation rate in June 2023 were the Food & Non-Alcoholic Beverages (1.7

Declining fuel and food prices helped push inflation down to 4.6% in June, from 5.7% in May, the lowest level since March 2021.

The latest data from Statistics Botswana shows that imported electricity generation has declined in the first quarter of the year, continuing the downward