Launching HB Antwerp's Botswana factory on 27 March President Mokgweetsi Masisi announced the equity deal which will see the Belgian company getting its pick of rough diamonds from the state-owned Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) over five years...
After five years of negotiations over revenues and production at the world's biggest diamond mine Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi and the De Beers conglomerate are at loggerheads...
Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi is happy to call himself one of Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa few friends abroad...
President Mokgweetsi Masisi's supporters in his bitter struggle with former mentor and predecessor Ian Khama are congratulating themselves following a court ruling that has neutered Khama's plans to return to politics...
The independence of Botswana's judiciary is in the spotlight following accusations by a tribal chief that President Mokgweetsi Masisi told her he would direct judges on how to rule in a case in which her Balete tribe is fighting the government over land...
Khama and Bridgette have previously been accused by Botswana of trying to overthrow his successor President Mokgweetsi Masisi and of involvement in money laundering (AC Vol 60 No 7 Stumbles at the falls)...
With just three months left for Botswana and De Beers to agree on a new long-term deal for billions of dollars in diamond mining cutting and sales President Mokgweetsi Masisi sees an historic chance for his country...
Security agents raided the homes of former President Ian Khama on 23-25 October in search of unlicensed weapons and arrested his ally former spy chief Isaac Kgosi as President Mokgweetsi Masisi goes for the jugular after suffering recent defeats in a long-running feud with his predecessor (AC Vol 62 No 18 Presidents trade more blows)...
Vol 62 No 20 |
- BOTSWANA
- NAMIBIA
The hearings which will see 22 witnesses being called six of them from Namibia could be explosive and potentially force President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his Namibian counterpart Hage Geingob to shift stances...
It is the latest in three years of confrontations between the ex-president and his hand-picked successor Mokgweetsi Masisi and they are not going well for the incumbent...