Botswana’s diamond strategy joins a wider African producer bloc
Botswana’s decision to join Namibia and South Africa in the Beijing Declaration on Natural Diamonds and Sustainable Development is more than a marketing exercise. It reflects a producer-country attempt to influence how natural diamonds are positioned in one of the...
Africa Solar Belt: A Demonstration Pledge Meets a 600-Million Access Gap
Economics - Industry & Resources · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 The Africa Solar Belt arrives wrapped in the language of access, but the early ledger reads more like a demonstration than a rollout. Proposed by China in September...
Cheap and Clean: Can Low-Cost Renewables Make African Factories Competitive
Economics - Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Clean energy is usually sold as a climate story. In Africa, the more consequential pitch is industrial. Manufacturers compete on the cost of power as much as the cost of...
Selling Sunlight Downhill: Ethiopia and Djibouti Wire a Regional Power Trade
Economics - Trade & AfCFTA · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 Two countries with opposite problems make a market. Ethiopia has more hydropower than its own grid can absorb; Djibouti has almost no generation of its own and already buys...
East Africa’s Dams: Chinese Hydropower Tests the Industrial Promise
Economics - Industry & Resources · Editorial By Moakanyi Magazine · China-in-Africa · June 2026 A dam is supposed to be a beginning, not an end. Across East Africa, Chinese contractors have raised some of the continent's largest hydropower stations on the...
Cement up 14 per cent, power flat: Congo’s real economy beneath the mining headline
Provisional BCC data for 2024 put cement up 14 per cent and electricity flat. The IMF expects non-mining growth to pick up only by 2029, so grid capacity is the constraint to watch.
Copper up 8 per cent, cobalt down 12: the dollar ledger behind Congo’s February
BCC data show copper gaining and cobalt losing between December and 21 February 2025. The regulator suspended cobalt exports on 22 February, leaving reserves and mining suppliers to watch the next digests.
Congo’s mines grew 11.6 per cent in 2024; the rest of the economy grew 3.2
Mining grew about 12 per cent in 2024, non-mining only 3.2 per cent. The BCC’s per-head figures hide a fall in dollar income, so firms should plan separate demand paths for mines and households.
Congo’s external account in January: cobalt tonnes up 31 per cent, price down 14
Cobalt output rose 31 per cent and copper held near US$9,167 a tonne, yet imports of mining inputs kept reserve cover near ten weeks. A US$2.77 billion IMF package arrived on 15 January.
Trade Dressing: Zimbabwe Willards Foods and Hanawa Foods
Have you noticed that Hanawa Super Foods’ cheese flavor packaging and Willards cheese flavor packaging look alike; therein lies what is now known as Trade Dressing in the world of Intellectual Property under trademark laws. Willards is an established brand in the...
How Much Does LinkedIn Advertising Cost?
As social media platforms continue to rise in popularity, it opens the door for businesses to advertise and reach new leads. LinkedIn is a great platform to help you garner brand awareness and earn new leads using ads. How much does it cost to advertise on LinkedIn,...
The Challenge of Revenue Generation for SMEs
By Oscar Habeenzu | for Cabanga Media Group Hustle, hustle, that is the order of the day, yet a complex matter that many just brush off as easy to do. There is a challenge in revenue generation for SMEs that needs to constantly be addressed and experiences shared, for...
What is the next great leap forward for your business and life?
This is a question we must all ask ourselves, in light of the reality and context we live in. It therefore goes without saying that to avoid answering this question is tantamount to failure. It is the inalienable question that determines growth, by defining how to...
COVID19 Crash: How China’s economy may offer a glimpse of the future
By Staff Writer (World Economic Forum) - China's business and economic activity slowed dramatically as the novel COVID-19 coronavirus spread. It's thought the effects on the country's economy could foreshadow what the rest of the world can expect. The UN has estimated...
The Rise of Renewable Energy Projects in Namibia
Discover how Namibia is leading the renewable energy revolution in Southern Africa through solar, wind, and green hydrogen projects.
Building a Results Oriented Sales Team
Businesses exist to make money. The main goal of sales is not the selling itself but the end result, that is the sale where there is an exchange of goods or service for the customer’s cash. Winning teams need to be in place and it takes time and skill to build such...
Moments of the Cup in Making
Soil is treasure. Despite the excessive heat, Potters extract clay soil with a vision of a company enjoying a cup of hot beverage. The clay soil is very dense than any type of soil. After the mining, water is added to enable the moulding which is carried out on the...
The Evolution of Trade and Markets
By Staff Writer | for Cabanga Magazine Since 1995, international trade in food and agriculture more than doubled in real terms to amount to USD 1.5 trillion in 2018. Emerging economies and developing countries are increasingly participating in global agricultural and...
Light at End of Tunnel: Inflation Seen Returning to Target in 2024
The Bank of Botswana expected inflation to move back inside its 3 to 6 percent target band by the second quarter of 2024, a forecast that shaped its decision to hold.
These are the 5 skills African employers are looking for
Olajumoke Adekeye, Founder, The Young Business Agency For many markets to work, information must be shared – between sellers and buyers, businesses and their customers, employers and jobseekers. In the job market in Africa, we have reached a point where employers and...