Sitting on nearly double its permitted diamond stockpile as weak prices and rising competition from lab‑grown stones curb ...

Botswana’s budget deficit for the current financial year will more than double to 18.6 billion pula ($1.4 billion), or 6.7% of gross domestic product, due to a sharp drop in diamond receipts, draft ...

Investing.com -- S&P Global Ratings has revised Botswana’s economic outlook to negative from stable, citing external and fiscal pressures. The agency confirmed its ’BBB+/A-2’ long- and short-term ...

Botswana is setting up a new sovereign wealth fund (SWF) to sit alongside the central bank-managed Pula Fund aiming to lock in fiscal discipline while channelling capital into diversification, jobs ...

Botswana President Duma Boko has declared a public health emergency and set up a 5 billion pula ($348 million) response plan as a prolonged downturn in diamond sales has caused funds for medical ...