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Nov 01 2025BUSINESS

Angola's Endiama Eyes De Beers, But Funding Unclear

Angola's state-owned diamond company, Endiama, has its eyes on a piece of De Beers. But there's a catch: the Angolan government won't be funding this deal through its national budget. That's what Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa made clear recently. Endiama had earlier shown interest in buying

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Dec 25 2024HEALTH

Botswana's Omicron FN. 1: A Closer Look

In December 2022, scientists in Botswana found a new sublineage of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, called FN. 1. This variant was discovered in samples from a few places in the Greater Gaborone district. To understand more about this new variant, researchers looked at its spread around the world an

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