Botswana's salt pans, the remains of ancient lakes, provide a one-of-a-kind biking landscape. These massive, flat stretches ...

London-listed Botswana Diamonds has been awarded four prospecting licences in Botswana following an extensive country-wide AI ...

Diamonds transformed the African nation’s economy — is it serious about taking control of Anglo American’s business?

Botswana's government wants to take a controlling stake in De Beers, the country's mining minister told the Financial Times ...

A new global analysis by the US's National Drought Mitigation Center and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), published in July 2025, reveals that Botswana is among the countries most ...

Botswana's culinary landscape is getting a major boost following the introduction of The Long Table Experience.

US biotech startup Colossal is trying to create a mammoth-elephant hybrid and introduce it to the Arctic tundra. A group of elephants in Botswana could hold the key.

Between Botswana and De Beers there are multiple deals. Each party owns half of Debswana, which mines 95% of the diamonds in Botswana, the second biggest producer after Russia.

Botswana has surpassed the UN's 95-95-95 goals on HIV. Researchers say that the country is on track to end the public health threat of AIDS by 2030.

Yet Botswana's diamond story is different, notes Keith Jefferis, an economist and former deputy governor of Botswana's Central Bank. "I sometimes class Botswana's history over the last 40 years as ...