I think Senegal is the only African team other Africans will 100% support in the World Cup.
They are a very lovable nation unlike Morocco and Xenophobia fc
Episode 1 of ‘HOUSE OF THE DRAGON’ Season 3 will be 72 minutes long.
Featuring the Battle of the Gullet — one of the bloodiest naval battles in Westeros’ history.
BREAKING: Israel says Iran has launched a wave of ballistic missiles toward Israel moments ago.
This marks the first Iranian attack on Israel since the ceasefire agreement began on April 8th.
I've been saying Botswana’s economy isn’t going to recover meaningfully in the next five years, and here’s why
1. The foundation was never that solid to begin with:
The crawling peg and monetary setup has always been heavily tied to diamond revenues, a volatile commodity. It looked stable during the good times, but the slump exposed the weakness.
Diamond exports and revenues tanked (sharp drops in 2024–2025), reserves fell to around 5 months of import cover, they’ve had to accelerate the currency crawl and widen bands, and imported inflation hit hard (10.3% CPI spike in April 2026).
Cumulative prices up ~30%+ since 2020. This indirect debasement has been grinding away because the money structure lacks real, independent anchors.
2. The Cantillon Effect
Government liquidity injections and projects like BETP mostly channel money first to the usual insiders, contractors, and connected players closest to the tap.
They spend or invest before prices fully adjust. Regular households, SMEs, and wage earners get hit later with higher costs from depreciation and inflation. These efforts don’t fix the broad money or liquidity problems they just redistribute real value unevenly.
I believe the real solution lies in commodity money, specifically a gold standard (or strong gold backing). Fiat systems and pegs tied to volatile exports are too easy to debase.
Even the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) recognizes this reality: under Basel III rules, physical gold is treated as a Tier 1 asset with 0% risk weight for capital purposes. The Bank put Gold on par with cash as a reliable, high-quality reserve that banks can hold without penalties. That’s a clear signal from the global regulatory body that sound, commodity-based money has enduring strength that paper arrangements often lack.
Unless the government moves toward a more resilient forex and liquidity framework, real diversification plus serious consideration of commodity anchors like gold we risk the kind of prolonged erosion that hit Zimbabwe hard in the 2000s. Mild GDP rebound forecasts won’t cut it if the monetary foundations stay this fragile.
You can't build a serious economy on malls, fintech, tenders and imports.
We need factories, farms, mines (which also link to beneficiation), refineries, rail, ports, engineers, nuclear plants, artisans, workers.