Republic of Botswana

Brazil and Botswana established diplomatic relations in 1985. With the deepening of bilateral relations in the first decade of the 2000s, Brazil established its resident Embassy in Gaborone in 2007. The Embassy of Botswana in Brasília – the country's first one in Latin America – was opened in 2009.

In 2005, Brazil and Botswana signed a Bilateral Technical Cooperation Agreement, the legal framework for joint work programs. In 2022, they signed the Agreement on Visa Waiver for Nationals from Brazil and Botswana, with the aim to facilitate business travels and to increase tourism between the two countries.

Botswana is a member of the Southern African Customs Union  - SAC.  In 2009 MERCOSUR and SACU established a preferential trade agreement, an intermediate step towards the creation of a free trade area between the blocs. Botswana officially adopted the Japan-Brazil digital television system, becoming the first country in Southern Africa to do so.

Chronology of bilateral relations

2022 – Minister of Foreign Affairs Lemogang Kwape visits Brazil. Signing of the Agreement on Visa Waiver for Nationals from Brazil and Botswana

2018 – Minister of Defense, Justice and Security Shaw Kgathi visits Brazil

2017 – Minister of Agricultural Development and Food Security Patrick P. Ralotsia visits Brazil

2017 – The Secretary-General of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Marcos Galvão, meets with the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of International Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic of Botswana, Gaeimelwe Goitsemang (Brasília, July 6, 2017)

2017 – Minister of Foreign Affairs Aloysio Nunes visits Botswana

2010 – 1st Meeting of the Brazil-Botswana Joint Commission

2009 – Opening of the Embassy of Botswana in Brasília

2007 – Opening of the Embassy of Brazil in Gaborone

2006 – President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visits Botswana; President Festus Mogae visits Brasil on the occasion of the 2nd Conference of Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora

2005 – The President of Botswana, Festus Mogae, visits Brazil; signing of  the Agreement on Technical Cooperation

2004 – The Permanent Secretary of Botswana’s Foreign Ministry, E. S. Mpofu, visits Brasília

1985 – Brazil and Botswana establish diplomatic relations