Botswana's new government will have to hit the ground running after booting out a party in power for six decades on a tidal wave of supporters expecting change ...

GABORONE, Botswana. (AP) — Thousands of people from around Botswana attended the inauguration Friday of their country’s new president, Duma Boko, who called for unity after an election that ...

GABORONE, Botswana. (AP) — Thousands of people from around Botswana attended the inauguration Friday of their country's new president, Duma Boko, who called for unity after an election that ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — Botswana votes in a national election this week that will decide if the ruling party extends a 58-year stretch in power in a southern African country that is a leading ...

Voters in Botswana have delivered a shock defeat to the party that has ruled them for nearly six decades by handing victory to an opposition coalition and its presidential candidate Duma Boko.

Khama, whose father Seretse Khama was Botswana's founding president, has returned from three years in exile to support the BPF in the election. The party won about 4% of votes in 2019. REUTERS ...

Factbox-Who Is Running for President in Botswana's Election? By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Botswana holds a national election on Oct. 30, with President Mokgweetsi Masisi favourite to ...

After 58 years, the Botswana Democratic Party lost its majority in Parliament, becoming the latest long-dominant party in southern Africa to fall from power. By Yvonne Mooka and John Eligon Yvonne ...

The electoral defeat delivered to the Botswana Democratic Party led by Mokgweetsi Masisi was met with incredulity in neighbouring states. Not many expected the party that had run the country ...

GABORONE, Botswana (AP) — 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 ...