The presidents of Botswana and Zimbabwe are to discuss scrapping passport requirements between their countries to allow for the easier flow of people and goods. Addressing ruling party supporters over ...

Diamond-rich Botswana has offered to lend neighboring Zimbabwe $95 million in private sector loans to help ease its economic crisis. It's rare for an African country to offer such a deal. The $95 ...

In October 2025, the international ratings agency Moody’s downgraded Botswana’s sovereign credit rating from “A3” to “BAA1”.

Botswana's coalition of opposition parties has slammed the country's electoral body for traveling to Zimbabwe to benchmark its election procedures — the process by which the performance of a system is ...

Big 5 hunters rejoiced after two Southern African countries changed their laws. PRETORIA, South Africa -- Big 5 hunters are rejoicing after two Southern African countries scrapped or relaxed their ...

“We used to look at Botswana as our poor cousin, but now we do all of our shopping there,” said David Coltart, an opposition member of the Zimbabwean parliament, when I met him a few months ago. The ...

The Presidents of Zimbabwe and Botswana have in principle agreed on the free movement of their citizens, and now immigration officials from both countries are expected to work on the modalities.If it ...

Zimbabwe’s government has hit back at Botswana’s President Ian Khama following his comments asking President Robert Mugabe to step down. Khama, in an interview with Reuters news agency on Wednesday, ...

One of the last African countries under white rule, Rhodesia was a British colony until 1970 and was led by the white-minority government of Ian Smith through the 1970s. In 1980, the Zimbabwe African ...

The $95-million credit line to Zimbabwe is earmarked for the private sector and revival of struggling industries. Although this is a drop in the ocean to what Zimbabwe requires for total recovery, ...