GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana’s government on Tuesday signed a long-delayed diamonds sales agreement with Anglo American unit De Beers.
Negotiations over the deal started in 2018.
In 2023 the two sides provisionally agreed terms under Botswana’s previous president, but they never formally signed an agreement.
New President Duma Boko, who swept to power last October, made signing the deal with De Beers a priority.
(Reporting by Brian Benza and Nelson Banya; Additional reporting by Bhargav Acharya; Writing by Sfundo Parakozov and Tannur Anders; Editing by Alexander Winning)
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