Botswana has inaugurated Mogweetsi Masisi as its new president.

The former vice president takes over from Ian Khama, who stepped down after his term limit was reached. Elections will be held next year.

Many say that they do not believe the new president is going to move far from Khama's socialist policies, which focused on poverty eradication, particularly in rural areas.

People expect President Masisi will keep in line with that, but they also hope he will have his own ideas and vision.

Al Jazeera's Catherine Soi reports from Gaborone.

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Moving to Botswana, where the country's former president, Ian Khama continues to lash out at his successor, Mokgweetsi Masisi.
Khama calls Masisi an autocratic who's failing his citizens.
Meanwhile, Masisi is appealing for space to do his job.

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31 year old Botswana Minister of Trade and Investment Bogolo Kenewendo says in her short time in politics she has already been threatened at the Pan African Parliament.
Kenewendo is part of the "Leadership in The face of Adversity" Dialogue with 200 young leaders from the Continent in Johannesburg
She says young leaders especially women are threatened by those who want sexual favors, but she was threatened with death
for criticizing reporting at the Pan African Parliament, but young people should stand firm.
Nthakoana Ngatane is at the Africa Leadership Academy.

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The once solid Botswana opposition is now fragmented and a new party has been formed as a result. This is considered a serious knock on the oppositions' chances of ever ruling the landlocked country of just over two million people. In 2014 a coalition of opposition parties, called the Umbrella for Democratic Change won 20 seats out of the 57 contested parliament seats, the highest number of seats the opposition has ever won in Botswana.

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Former president Ian Khama was accused along with three others facing a total of 38 charges

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Botswana’s government has dismissed allegations that it plans to arrest and kill exiled former President Ian Khama if he returned home.


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Director of Public Relations for the Botswana Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS), Edward Robert, has issued a statement after the DIS allegedly invaded the offices of a leading newspaper, Mmegi, on Thursday last week and took in its editor and a reporter for questioning.
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Botswana President Seretse Ian Khama has shied away from nominating his brother as vice president, ending a political and legal battle that threw the country's democratic reputation into question.
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On Thursday (Dec. 29), the judge issued orders that Ian Khama should be arrested on sight.
The former leader is believed to be in South Africa, where he went into a self-imposed exile in November 2021.

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A war of words is looming between former President of Botswana Ian Khama and the incumbent President Mokgweetsi Masisi.
Khama accused Masisi's government of failing the people of Botswana. But Masisi says people can vote the ruling BDP out of power if it wishes to.

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Botswana's President, Mokgweetsi Masisi has been accused of arresting journalists and members of the opposition. Courtesy of #DStv403

Voters in Botswana head to the polls today for crucial general elections in one of Africa's most stable democracies.

Over 900,000 registered voters are expected to cast their ballots across the country to elect members of the national assembly and by extension the president of the southern African nation.

The polls have been described by analyst as unprecedented especially against the backdrop that the former president Ian Khama has thrown his weight behind two opposition presidential candida…
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Voter Registrations ahead of the 2024 Botswana National Elections hang in the balance as the Umbrella for Democratic Change is at loggerheads with the Independent Electoral Commission.

The two returned to the high court of Botswana in Francistown after the UDC was granted an interim order interdicting the IEC from preventing UDC agents from monitoring the voter registration processes.

The IEC then postponed voter registrations which were set to start on 1st November.

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There are concerns over alleged deterioration of human rights in Botswana, ahead of the 2024 elections. The judicial arm of the AU has accused the government of using the criminal justice system to silence political dissent. Adam Smith-Anthony weighs in.

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Botswana's former president Ian Khama has vowed to vigorously campaign to defeat his handpicked successor Mokgweetsi Masisi in the ballot box. Now bitter rivals, Khama accuses Masisi of being a threat to democracy.

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The King of the non-sovereign Angolan Kingdom of Bailundo visited a community living on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, on Wednesday (Nov. 08). The residents
constitute a 'quilombo', a community of self-emancipated slaves. In the Quilombo do Camorim many trace their ancestry back to Angola

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The residents of Cabinda, in the north of Angola, find the Congolese city of Ponta Negra as their biggest business center, but complain about the custom duties at the Massabi border.


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