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Botswana
Gabarone ready to reveal companies' true owners in bid to please money-laundering watchdog

Botswana was removed from the Financial Action Task Force's notorious grey list by the skin of its teeth last October and is now seeking to implement reforms it promised to the global money-laundering watchdog. New laws are planned to force companies to make public the names of those who benefit from them. [...]

Published on 24.01.2022 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Botswana Unified Revenue Service
Companies and Intellectual Property Authority
European Union
Financial Action Task Force
Financial Intelligence Authority
Ian Khama
Isaac Kgosi
Mmusi Kgafela
Mokgweetsi Masisi

Botswana
Gaborone plans to disclose all firms' UBOs by mid-2023 to fight graft

The Botswana Business Registry wants the data on companies' ultimate beneficial owners (UBO) to be available online by August. With this move, Gaborone wants to show it is willing to reform after the Financial Action Task Force removed the country from its grey list in 2021.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics 31.01.2023

DRC
DRC under 'enhanced scrutiny' by FATF due to anti-money laundering failures

The Financial Action Task Force, an intergovernmental body responsible for evaluating anti-money laundering measures, has put the DRC on its grey list. The country risks being placed on the blacklist, on which only North Korea and Iran feature.

Subscribers only Finance 07.10.2022

Botswana
Gaborone delights investors with new uranium mining legislation

New legislation enabling uranium to be mined without contravening Botswana's nuclear non-proliferation legislation should benefit the Letlhakane Uranium Project, which Australia's A-Cap Energy has been working on for more than 10 years.

Subscribers only Mining 07.02.2022

Botswana
Gaborone in anti-money laundering task force's last chance saloon

Despite three years of cooperation with the Financial Action Task Force, Botswana looks like it is going to stay on the organisation's grey list. President Masisi has intervened personally to try to save the day.

Subscribers only Politics 28.09.2021

Inner circles | SADC
Jorge Cardoso gets to grips with SADC's security potential to contend with Cabo Delgado crisis

Of all the directorates of the Southern African Development Community, the one charged with regional political, defence, and security issues is by far the most strategic. Headed by Angola's Jorge Cardoso, it has to humour the changing moods of the organisation's rotating presidents at a time when a SADC military response is increasingly expected in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 26.02.2021

Jorge Cardoso, head of the SADC Organ for Cooperation in Politics, Defense and Security.

Inner circles | Mauritius
Pravind Jugnauth's task force struggles to shake off EU blacklisting

Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth has put together a solid team of experts to work on getting Mauritius off the European Union's blacklist of third countries that pose a risk to the bloc because of anti-money laundering deficiencies.

Subscribers only Finance, Politics 12.02.2021

Prime Minister of Mauritius Pravind Jugnauth.

Inner circles | Botswana
Farouk Ismail, Choppies founder and political philanthropist

One of Botswana's wealthiest tycoons, Farouk Ismail, frequently donates to the country's most high-profile charities. Founder of country's supermarket leader Choppies, which has stores across southern Africa, this charitable strategy is a way of making friends with Botswana's heads of state.

Subscribers only Business 18.09.2020

Botswana
Gaborone readies its negotiators to keep off EU blacklist

Brussels has warned Botswana that it may add the country to its list of third countries with weak money-laundering and terrorist financing regimes on 1 October, sending Gaborone's officials and diplomats into overdrive. The fallout could be huge for Botswana whose economy depends heavily on exports to the EU.

Subscribers only Finance, Diplomacy 22.05.2020

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Niger
Washington watches as Tehran negotiates with Niamey for 300 tonnes of uranium

Guinea
Behind the scenes of Mamadi Doumbouya's offensive on Russian miner Nordgold

Botswana
Gabarone ready to reveal companies' true owners in bid to please money-laundering watchdog

Botswana
Gaborone plans to disclose all firms' UBOs by mid-2023 to fight graft

DRC
DRC under 'enhanced scrutiny' by FATF due to anti-money laundering failures

Botswana
Gaborone delights investors with new uranium mining legislation

Botswana
Gaborone in anti-money laundering task force's last chance saloon

Inner circles | SADC
Jorge Cardoso gets to grips with SADC's security potential to contend with Cabo Delgado crisis

Inner circles | Mauritius
Pravind Jugnauth's task force struggles to shake off EU blacklisting

Inner circles | Botswana
Farouk Ismail, Choppies founder and political philanthropist

Botswana
Gaborone readies its negotiators to keep off EU blacklist