Botswana

Inflation in May fell significantly to 8.4% y-o-y from 10.2% y-o-y in April, driven by the continued fall in transport costs. Contracting by 12.7% y-o-y, this more than offset still... 2009-06-26

President Ian Khama has instructed his lawyers to sue the weekly paper, Sunday Standard for defamation. Often critical of the president, the paper suggested that the security services... 2009-05-28

Botswana's foreign reserves plunged by 13.8% y-o-y in January. At US$8.7bn, they sat 16.4% below their peak in April 2008 and 5.1% lower than at end-08. As diamond exports, the country's... 2009-05-28

Despite the animosity between Ian Khama and Robert Mugabe, presidents respectively of Botswana and Zimbabwe, the Batswana government has pledged BWP500mn (US$70mn) in aid and assistance... 2009-04-30

We have revised down our real GDP growth forecast from a contraction of 2.9% in 2008/09 to an even more dismal negative 9.9%. Collapsed diamond output, especially in Q109 when all... 2009-04-30

Having been early to suggest that Botswana would tip into recession in 2009, we are downgrading further our real GDP forecast for 2008/09. Ongoing weakness in the mining sector, despite... 2009-04-30

As Botswana's political parties start to position themselves ahead of the general election later in the year, the incumbent Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) and second opposition party,... 2009-03-26