The application brings a winding-up bid against a company whose reopening was presented as a boost for local manufacturing, employment and Botswana’s ambitions to reduce dependence on imports.
Botswana's financial services regulator has placed Minet Botswana (Pty) Limited under statutory management without publicly explaining what prompted the intervention.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed between the Ministry of Communications and Innovation and Huawei Technologies (Botswana) Proprietary Limited, establishes a framework for cooperation towards the government's digital ambitions under Vision 2036.
Botswana’s government debt is projected to reach 40.6 percent of GDP in 2027 as economic growth slows, according to the World Bank, which also forecasts higher inflation and a large budget deficit this year.
The escalating Middle East conflict has cast fresh uncertainty over Botswana's P160 billion investment arrangement with Qatar's Al Mansour Holdings, which remains without publicly confirmed financing commitments.
An airport search in Dhaka began a four-year journey through detention, false reports of execution, a death sentence, an appeal and a diplomatic campaign. Lesedi Molapisi is now free, but her case leaves Botswana with difficult questions about justice, mercy and the death penalty.
Botswana met 86 per cent of its electricity demand through local generation in the first quarter of the 2026/27 financial year, up from 67 per cent during the same period last year.