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Focus on Africa: Can Botswana continue to depend on its diamond industry?

Africa Daily by BBC

Oct 3, 202527:30News & Politics

In an exclusive interview with the BBC's Waihiga Mwaura, Botswana's President Duma Boko, outlines his plan to reduce his country's reliance on the diamond industry amid falling global demand, and how he is pushing for a...

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