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Africa’s Time – Delivering Transformation via Innovation

Sierra Leone Telegraph 09 Dec 2024
In Uganda, a young woman engineer has designed a backpack with solar-powered torches, so that students are able to study at night. In Botswana, Brastorne Enterprises connects nearly 5 million ...
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The Year of Elections

Quillette 09 Dec 2024
In October, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which had held power since independence from Britain in 1966, suffered a catastrophic defeat in the general elections, losing all but four of its 38 ...
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Absa affirms commitment to sustainable growth

Mmegi Online 06 Dec 2024
Botswana's economy is still powered for the most part by fossil fuels and as a middle-income country, it may be more difficult to access funding for the green transition ... Absa Bank Botswana Limited.
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Lesotho showers Culture Spears with ‘massive’ love

Mmegi Online 06 Dec 2024
Following that, a group of Batswana contingent who travelled miles from Botswana rushed to the front with national flags flying high also singing ... As true ambassador of Botswana, they signed off by ...
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SWAPO survives regional onslaught against legacy parties

Mmegi Online 06 Dec 2024
In locally, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) that has been in power since the country took independence in 1966 was crushed in October’s general elections by the Umbrellla for Democratic Change.
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Gov't pushes for decentralisation

Mmegi Online 06 Dec 2024
“It will transfer decision-making powers and resources ... Still, on the matter, he said decentralisation has been the most discussed and contested public sector reform in Botswana over the past 30 years.
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Namibia elects its first woman President as ruling party keeps power

Deccan Herald 04 Dec 2024
A few months later, in neighboring Botswana, the Botswana Democratic Party suffered its first electoral defeat since it came to power nearly six decades ago.</p><p>And while Frelimo, the ...
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Namibia elects first female president in disputed poll

Business Ghana 04 Dec 2024
South Africa’s African National Congress lost its outright parliamentary majority in May and the Botswana Democratic Party was kicked out of power after nearly six decades following October's election.
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Namibia elects its first woman president

Raw Story 04 Dec 2024
The election was seen as a key test for SWAPO after other liberation-era movements in the region have lost favour with young voters including with the Botswana Democratic Party being ousted from power ...
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Namibia’s female VP leads in presidential election marred by problems and opposition complaints

Wtop 02 Dec 2024
It cannot only work for those who want to remain in power by ... The Botswana Democratic Party was stunningly swept from power in that country after governing for 58 years since independence from Britain.
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Digitisation as Africa’s great equaliser in financial services

B & FT Online 02 Dec 2024
... in Tanzania can access trade finance to import goods more seamlessly; and a labourer in Botswana can send remittances to his family in Malawi – all through the power of digital financial services.
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Cricket team advances in World Cup qualifiers

Mmegi Online 29 Nov 2024
This is after Botswana won all four matches in the Sub-Regional Qualifier C held in Nigeria this week ... In the first match against Eswatini, Botswana posted 175/4 in 20 overs, powered by a century from Vinoo Balakrishnan.
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Masisi calls for BDP introspection

Mmegi Online 29 Nov 2024
In a recent address to the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) structures, party president Mokgweetsi Masisi delivered a candid reflection on the state of the party as it prepares for the 2029 General Election.
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DIS knew the BDP would lose – Magosi

Mmegi Online 29 Nov 2024
After a historic election that saw the Umbrella for Change (UDC) wrestling power from the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), the Director General (DG) of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security ...
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Adapt, die: Viva Umbrella whither

Mmegi Online 29 Nov 2024
Since it is the first time in Botswana that a change of administration entails a taking over of state power by a different party from the one that was governing before it, the new Umbrella for ...

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