{"id":248951,"date":"2026-11-03T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-el-nino-threatens-inflation-outlook\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:00:22","slug":"botswana-el-nino-threatens-inflation-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-el-nino-threatens-inflation-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: El Nino Threatens Inflation Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Gaborone \u2014 El Nino effects including below normal rainfall, droughts, heatwaves, crop failure and livestock deaths present an additional upside risk to the inflation outlook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Presenting the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) report in Gaborone on October 30, Bank of Botswana Governor, Mr Lesego Moseki indicated that externally, elevated prices for oil, gas, fertilisers and industrial inputs resulting from the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, were also expected to continue exerting upward&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611030099.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 El Nino effects including below normal rainfall, droughts, heatwaves, crop failure and livestock deaths present an additional upside risk to the inflation outlook. Presenting the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) report in Gaborone on October 30, Bank of Botswana Governor, Mr Lesego Moseki indicated that externally, elevated prices for oil, gas, fertilisers and industrial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":248952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,6265,257,25815,10797,254,10413],"class_list":["post-248951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-inflation","tag-news","tag-nino","tag-outlook","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}