{"id":48782,"date":"2025-09-28T13:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/48782\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:19:09","slug":"diamond-rich-botswana-launches-citizenship-by-investment-scheme-to-boost-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/48782\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond-rich Botswana launches citizenship by investment scheme to boost economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Botswana President Duma Boko said on Friday his country will establish a citizenship-by-investment programme, as the southern African country looks to diversify its economy away from its largest export, diamonds.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Botswana&#8217;s budget has been constrained this year due to a prolonged downturn in the global diamond market. It is the world&#8217;s leading producer of diamonds by value.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">\u201cThis programme will enable us to continue to secure the long-term financial future of Botswana,&#8221; Boko said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">The new programme will raise funds to address priority needs including the housing market as well as the country\u2019s tourism industry, renewable energy, <a target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trtafrika.com\/english\/article\/4ee4ddd74fc1\">mining and financial services sectors, <\/a>according to the statement. <\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"\">Economy contracted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Botswana President Duma Boko said on Friday his country will establish a citizenship-by-investment programme, as the southern African&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-48782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}