Mmegi

Crosswire lists Mmegi as Center within Botswana's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side.

Read Mmegi beside another title from Botswana and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Two dailies from Botswana covering the same day will usually agree on the facts and differ on the ordering: which story is worth the top of the page, how the headline characterises it, and which follow-ups get space. Those are Mmegi's editorial choices, and they are easiest to see side by side. Because Mmegi is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Botswana either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

Mmegi is one of 5 outlets tracked in Botswana, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being Sunday Standard, The Botswana Gazette and Botswana Daily News. By outlets tracked, Botswana ranks tenth of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Africa hub, which lists 178 outlets in all.

Across Africa, Crosswire tracks 73 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Mmegi outside Botswana, starting with Southern Africa, are TimesLIVE (South Africa), Jornal de Angola (Angola), Eswatini Observer (Eswatini) and Lesotho Times (Lesotho). Opening one of them beside Mmegi is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.