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Botswana's new president Duma Boko waves to crowds at his inauguration ceremony in Gaborone, Botswana, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo)

Thousands turn out for inauguration of Botswana’s new president, who calls for unity

By Sello Motseta - Associated Press

Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) presidential candidate Duma Boko speaks to a journalist after casting his vote during the elections in Gaborone, Botswana, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Historic power shift in Botswana means change is coming, new president says

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

Botswana Democratic Party President Mokgweetsi Masisi casts his vote during an election to decide if it keeps faith with one of the Africa's longest-ruling parties, at a Mosielele primary school in Moshupa village, Southern District of Botswana, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Seismic change in Botswana as party that ruled for 58 years loses power

By Sello Motseta - Associated Press

Residents wait for their turns to cast their votes during an election to decide if it keeps faith with one of the Africa's longest-ruling parties, in Gaborone, Botswana, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Botswana holds an election where the diamond trade has become a central issue

By Sello Motseta - Associated Press

Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi holds the 2,492-carat diamond that was unearthed at one of its mines and will be put on show, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, in Gaborone. (AP Photo)

Humongous diamond — 2,492 carats — dug up in Botswana

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

U.S. Marine Gen. Michael E. Langley, head of U.S. Africa Command, left, speaks to reporters at a conference of military chiefs from across Africa, with Lt. Gen. Placid Segokgo, Botswana’s commander of the defense force, Tuesday, June 25, 2024, in Gaborone, Botswana. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor) ** FILE **

Botswana election could complicate Pentagon’s search for new digs in Africa

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

In this March 3, 2013, file photo, elephants drink water in the Chobe National Park in Botswana. (AP Photo/Charmaine Noronha/File)

Botswana offers Germany 20,000 elephants to protest limit on hunting trophy imports

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

The wreckage off a bus lays in a ravine a day after it plunged off a bridge on the Mmamatlakala mountain pass between Mokopane and Marken, around 300km (190 miles) north of Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, March 29, 2024. A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said. The only survivor was an 8-year-old child who was receiving medical attention for serious injuries. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

8-year-old lone survivor of South Africa bus crash will be discharged from hospital

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, centre left, is greeted by African National Congress supporters as he arrives at the Mose Mabhida stadium in Durban, South Africa, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, for the ANC national manifesto launch in anticipation of the 2024 general elections. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A string of votes provides stress test for health of African democracy

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

Locusts now threatening parts of southern Africa, UN says

Associated Press

In this supplied photo a dead elephant lies in the bush in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, Monday May 25, 2020. Botswana says it is investigating a staggeringly high number of elephant carcasses, with 275 found in the popular Okavango Delta area of the southern African nation in recent weeks.(Photo via AP)

What killed hundreds of elephants in Botswana? Still unknown

By SELLO MOTSETA - Associated Press

Botswana investigates ‘mysterious deaths’ of 275 elephants

By SELLO MOTSESA - Associated Press

People line up to vote in Botswana's general elections at the Masa primary school in Gaborone Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. Polls opened in Botswana on Wednesday as the long-peaceful southern African nation faces what is expected to be its tightest election in history.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Botswana votes as ruling party faces surprising challenge

By SELLO MOTSETA - Associated Press

In this April 5, 2019, photo, Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi, center, is photographed at a rally in Gaborone, Botswana. The country's ruling party, the BDF (Botswana Democratic Party) faces the tightest election of its history on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 after former Botswana President Ian Khama, annoyed with his hand-picked successor, Masisi, announced his support for the opposition. (AP Photo/Sello Motseta)

Botswana, calm for decades, faces surprising election fight

By SELLO MOTSETA - Associated Press

Britain's Prince Harry looks at the work of a Botswana Defence Force anti-poaching patrol, on the Chobe river in Kasane, Botswana, Thursday Sept. 25, 2019, on day four of the royal tour of Africa. The 10-day, multi-country tour includes stops for Harry in Botswana, Angola and Malawi with a focus on wildlife protection, mental health and mine clearance — a topic given global attention by Harry's late mother, Princess Diana, when she walked through an active mine field during an Africa visit years ago. (Dominic Lipinski/Pool via AP)

Prince Harry: ‘No one can deny science’ on climate change

Associated Press