Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi conceded defeat on Friday after preliminary results showed his party had lost its parliamentary majority by a landslide in this week’s election, ending ...

Botswana opposition wins election; BDP ousted from power after 58 years. Mokgweetsi Masisi concedes defeat to Duma Boko after shock outcome for the long-governing Botswana Democratic Party.

UDC supporters were celebrating as the results came in overnight Voters in Botswana have rejected the country’s long-serving governing party in a result that marks a political earthquake in the ...

Botswana’s new president has promised to restore some rights, which were taken away from the Bushmen, an indigenous tribe of hunters and gatherers found across southern Africa.

Botswana has had a rocky history with trophy hunting. In 2014, then-president Ian Khama introduced a moratorium on the practice, worrying it was damaging the country's wildlife credentials in the ...

Botswana has sworn in Duma Boko as the country’s new president after his landslide election victory kicked out the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which had been in power for nearly 60 years.

The diamond was so large that it obscured the face of Botswana’s president as he held it up for closer inspection on Thursday. President Mokgweetsi Masisi grinned as he lifted the diamond, a ...

Botswana has a peaceful multi-party democratic tradition, with general elections held every five years. The latest elections took place on October 30, 2024, and led to a change of the ruling party.