Britain’s VISA Revenge

• UK view Boko’s aborted meetings a diplomatic snub: Lukashenko calls Botswanaa good partner
• Anxiety over Boko, Belarus, a changing Africa: Plans for Botswana–Belarus trade, mining in motion
• $12 billion Qatari investment, Belarus, Oman emerge as Boko’s fast-growing partners
• Visa clampdown:UK moves to assert influence dressed as migration policy
• End of Anglo–De Beers era cuts Britain’s last economic anchor in Botswana.
• Boko at UNGA: “Africa must work on herself to claim her place.”

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When the United Kingdom abruptly imposed visa requirements on Batswana this week, it was explained away as an “immigration control measure.” But beneath the bureaucratic veneer lies a far deeper anxiety, one that speaks to a rapidly changing African political landscape and a West suddenly unsure of where Botswana now stands.

This is not about asylum claims. This is about trust, alignment, and influence. And London, insiders say, is uneasy.