Botswana faces an urgent need for wide-ranging structural reforms to revive growth, tackle unemployment and reduce heavy reliance on diamonds.

The Attorney General of the United States (SA) Virgin Islands has sued Meta Platforms, accusing the Facebook and Instagram owner of deliberately profiting from advertisements for scams and failing to keep its social media platforms safe for children

Transalloys, which operates South Africa’s (SA) last functioning manganese smelter, may have to close the plant and cut hundreds of jobs if its soaring electricity costs are not brought down, its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) said on Tuesday.

Zimbabwe will add 400 megawatts to its power grid, a fifth of the country’s current electricity demand, under a $455 million upgrade of its Hwange coal-fired power plant, the Head of State-owned power utility, Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA), said.