{"id":27021,"date":"2026-02-26T11:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers-qa\/channelafrica\/news\/botswana-central-bank-maintains-key-rate-for-second-meeting-running\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:59","slug":"botswana-central-bank-maintains-key-rate-for-second-meeting-running","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/botswana-central-bank-maintains-key-rate-for-second-meeting-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Central bank maintains key rate for second meeting running"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Botswana&#8217;s central bank kept its monetary policy rate unchanged at 3.5% in a decision announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It was the second meeting in a row that the Bank of Botswana maintained the rate, as it tries to keep inflation within its objective range of 3%-6% over the medium term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Inflation in the Southern African country accelerated to 4.1% year-on-year in January from 3.9% in December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The country&#8217;s economy has been under strain and is believed to have contracted for the past two years because of a prolonged slump in the global market for diamonds, its key export.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27022,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-27021","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Botswana's central bank","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27304,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/27021\/revisions\/27304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=27021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}