Botswana’s youth unemployment crisis is not only about a shortage of jobs. It also exposes a deeper mismatch between what schools and universities prepare young people to do and the skills demanded by the economy Botswana says it wants to build.
The Okavango Delta remains one of Botswana’s greatest natural and economic assets, but climate variability, high elephant densities and pressure to expand tourism are testing the model that protects it. Preserving Botswana’s premium wilderness brand may now require more deliberate management than ever before.
Botswana has launched a new sovereign wealth fund as diamond revenues decline and pressure mounts to diversify the economy. Its governance ambitions are promising—but the bigger question is whether the country has a clear enough investment strategy to turn savings into a genuinely post-diamond economy.