Al Cook, Chief Executive Officer of De Beers, and Duncan Wanblad, Chief Executive Officer of Anglo-American, have met with President Duma Boko in a courtesy call...
AP | The party of Botswana’s opposition candidate Duma Boko was declared the election winner Friday over incumbent President Mokgweetsi Masisi in a seismic change that...
Reuters | Botswana intends to renegotiate its proposed purchase of a stake in Belgian gem dealer HB Antwerp to double the size of its shareholding at...
Bloomberg | The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has stockpiled 300,000 carats of diamonds under new regulations which compel miners to pay half of their royalties using...
Reuters | Botswana will not back down on demands for a bigger share of rough diamonds from its joint venture with De Beers, President Mokgweetsi Masisi...
By Yinka Adegoke Botswana’s acquisition of a 24 percent stake in a Belgian diamond company is one of the most ambitious attempts by an African country...
AFP | In a perceived challenge to De Beers’s dominance of Botswana’s diamond industry, the southern African nation’s government announced Monday it will buy a 24...
By Gregory Simpkins Over the centuries, the natural blessings of Africa seem to have been more apparent to outsiders than even the rulers of African countries....
A sleepy African city is rapidly being turned into a major global trading center. After decades of just mining rough diamonds, Botswana’s capital Gaborone now cuts,...
Botswana’s big idea for diversification of the largely mineral-dependent economy is the establishment of a world-class financial services hub in the capital city, Gaborone, to develop...
