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Botswana Takes Its Diamond Story to the World’s Biggest Market

The Minister of Minerals and Energy Bogolo Joy Kenewendo has concluded a week of high-level engagements in New York aimed at reinforcing Botswana’s standing as the world’s leading source of responsibly mined natural diamonds and deepening ties across the global jewellery industry. The United States is the single largest and …

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Diamond Slump Costs Botswana Its Investment-Grade Comfort Zone

Botswana has been stripped of a notch on its sovereign credit rating as S&P Global Ratings warned that the country’s deep dependence on diamonds is extracting a heavier and more prolonged toll than previously anticipated. The ratings agency lowered Botswana’s long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings to ‘BBB-‘ …

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Eastport’s Botswana Uranium Hunt Grows Bigger Than Expected

The Eastport Critical Minerals Corp. (TSXV: EVI; OTCQB: EVIIF) has expanded its drilling programme at the Foley Uranium Project in Botswana after Phase 1 results revealed a mineralised system considerably larger than initially anticipated. The project sits immediately north of Lotus Resources’ Letlhakane deposit, one of the world’s largest undeveloped …

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Botswana Pivots to Agri-Industrialization to Break Diamond Dependency

GABORONE – The Government of Botswana is aggressively accelerating its economic diversification agenda, positioning the agricultural sector as the primary engine to shield the national economy from the volatility of global diamond markets. Under the Botswana Economic Transformation Programme (BETP), the landlocked nation aims to triple agriculture’s contribution to Gross …

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