EU: Restricts Botswana Beef Exports Over Foot-and-Mouth Outbreaks

On 21 April 2026, the European Union drew a line through Botswana’s last authorized fresh-beef export zones. The decision, triggered by a cascade of foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks across the country’s veterinary control areas, did more than sever a trade route. It forced a landlocked southern African nation of 2.4 million people to answer an uncomfortable question: What happens to an export-dependent industry when its most lucrative doorway slams shut? The answer is still taking shape.... The post From the Kalahari to Kinshasa: Botswana’s beef industry confronts its moment of reckoning appeared first on Weekend Post.