Botswana supermarket chain Choppies Enterprises has finally succeeded in its year-long quest to enter Kenya’s retail space through the acquisition of Ukwala Supermarkets stores.

The Botswana Building Society (BBS) aims to list on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) once it transforms into a fully-fledged commercial bank.

The Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) has frozen the trading of over 750 million shares, which have not been converted from paper securities certificates to electronic form under the Central Securities Depository (CSD).

Aim-listed Botswana Diamonds has raised £500,000 through the placing of 33.33 million new ordinary shares at a price of 1.5p a share.