Pool-House Reform Opens the Door to More Homeowners
Public housing schemes tend to fail at the same join: they build the houses but withhold the ownership. A tenant who can occupy a state-built home but never own it is a tenant forever, with no stake to maintain and no asset to build on. The reform of Botswana's...
Pool-House Reform Opens the Door to More Homeowners
Public housing schemes tend to fail at the same join: they build the houses but withhold the ownership. A tenant who can occupy a state-built home but never own it is a tenant forever, with no stake to maintain and no asset to build on. The reform of Botswana's...
P558m Road Contract to Spur Rural Mobility
Botswana's road map tells two stories at once. One is of a well-connected spine — the highways linking Gaborone, Francistown and the major centres are real and serviceable. The other is of the gravel and dirt that still separates many rural settlements from that...
Kazungula Bridge Authority Formalised, Strengthening Botswana–Zambia Ties
Cross-border infrastructure in Southern Africa rarely fails for want of steel. It fails for want of a clear answer to a duller question: once the bridge is built, who runs it, who bills for it, and who carries the legal authority to keep it open. The Kazungula Bridge...
US$1.52bn to the Last Mile: Zambia’s Plan for Universal Power by 2030
Zambia has more installed generation than many of its citizens have ever seen at a wall socket. The gap between the national grid and the last mile, the rural household, the off-grid clinic, the small mill at the end of a dirt road, is where the country's...
Pool-House Reform Opens the Door to More Homeowners
On 5 March 2026 Minister Ramogapi added a tenant-purchase option and dropped plot-size and eligibility limits to Botswana’s pool-house scheme; 277 sold, 248 in
P558m Road Contract to Spur Rural Mobility
Government has awarded SteelBase Construction a P558.2m contract for a 60km Digawana–Ntlhantlhe road. What the price signals and what all-weather rural
Kazungula Bridge Authority Formalised, Strengthening Botswana–Zambia Ties
Botswana and Zambia have formalised the Kazungula Bridge Authority — hosted in Botswana, with Zambia keeping the executive director role. Why governance, not
US$1.52bn to the Last Mile: Zambia’s Plan for Universal Power by 2030
Zambia’s updated Rural Electrification Master Plan requires US$1.52bn for universal access by 2030, via inter-ministry coordination, partnerships and a digital
Maun Solar Megaproject: 30-Year 500MW PPA Sealed with Oman
Botswana has signed a 30-year PPA for a 500MW solar plant with 500MWh storage in Maun, partnering with Oman, toward 50% renewables by 2030. Inside the deal.
Tendering for Transformation: How Zambia’s Bond Repurchase Funds Grid Resilience
Zambia’s 29 May 2026 tender to repurchase US$1.36bn in step-up notes, backed by a US$600m AfDB facility, funds a 15-year Grid Resilience Programme.
The Businesses Behind Lower Zambezi: Tourism, Conservation and Development Pressure
The commercial map of the Lower Zambezi: river tourism, conservation jobs, cross-border itineraries and premium lodges as one interdependent, river-dependent
Schools You Can See: China’s Visible but Underwritten Education Build in Africa
China has funded more than 170 schools across Africa. The visible buildings raise a quieter question of who pays the teachers and bills after handover.
Surgical Wings and Lab Benches: China’s Health-System Build-Out in Africa
A fresh roster of Chinese-built hospitals and diagnostic centres reads as system-strengthening. Whether national budgets can run them is the unwritten clause.
Clinics and Classrooms: China’s Twin-Track Health Story in Africa
China’s foreign ministry counts decades of medical teams and tens of thousands trained. The harder question is what stays once the visiting doctors fly home.
Africa CDC’s Headquarters: A China-Built Home for a Sovereignty Question
Africa’s disease-control agency got a continental headquarters built and paid for by China. The building is a gift; the autonomy it houses is the harder thing.
Hospitals as Aid: China’s Brick-and-Mortar Health Footprint in Africa
A hospital is the most visible form of aid and the hardest to sustain. China has funded scores across Africa – and the building is the easy part.
TEDA Suez: How a Chinese desert zone became Egypt’s industrial showpiece
A patch of Red Sea Gobi was meant to lure factories away from the Suez Canal’s shadow. Two decades on it hosts nearly 200 firms – and a set of questions about who the industrialisation is really for.
Dukem’s Wager: What One Chinese Industrial Zone Taught Ethiopia About Factories
A private Chinese developer bet US$180 million on a field outside Addis Ababa in 2007. What grew there became a test of whether Africa can host the factory floor.
Generate, Carry, Build: Reading Africa’s Power Sector as One Chain
Generation, transmission and industry are usually budgeted in separate columns. The output of each is the input of the next – which is why the weakest link sets the pace.
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