During JCK 2024, Mokgweetsi Masisi, President of Botswana, spoke before an audience with JCK editor Victoria Gomelsky regarding the past, present and future of Botswana's diamond industry. Presented ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Botswana's President and leader of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) Mokgweetsi Masisi casts his vote at his home village of ...

Morphing from an obscure first-time MP in 2009 to a surprise vice presidential appointment in 2014, and then president in 2018, the man affectionately known as “Sisiboy” (a play on his surname) has ...

GABORONE, Botswana — Botswana held a national election on Wednesday to decide if one of Africa's longest-ruling parties stays in power for another five-year term. The Botswana Democratic Party has ...

Botswana is set for its first change of governing party in 58 years after president Mokgweetsi Masisi conceded defeat in the general election. Mr Masisi's Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which had ...

Botswana held its national election on 30 October and then president Mokgweetsi Eric Masisi and the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) were soundly beaten. The BDP has been the ruling party of Botswana ...

Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi is threatening to send 20,000 elephants to Germany after the European country’s environment ministry called for limiting imports on hunted trophies, according to a ...

Analysts had given the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), led by Mokgweetsi Masisi less chance of winning the elections on 23 October than its challenger, the opposition Umbrella for Democratic ...

President Mokgweetsi Masisi of the Republic of Botswana and a delegation including First Lady Neo Jane Masisi visited Yale on June 6 for a series of meetings aimed at developing partnerships that ...

Botswana’s governing party - in power for almost six decades - is trying to pull off a trick in Wednesday’s general election by using a phrase normally associated with long-suffering opposition groups ...

Mokgweetsi Masisi being sworn in as the elected President of Botswana by Chief Justice Terrence Rannowane. With him is his wife Neo. Mmegi Mokgweetsi Masisi’s decisive victory in the recent Botswana ...

GABORONE, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Mokgweetsi Masisi was declared president of Botswana on Friday, retaining his position and the ruling Botswana Democratic Party's long dominance of power despite a strong ...