Gaborone, Botswana, Nov 8, 2024 (AFP) - Botswana's new president hails 'new dawn' as sworn in

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2024-11-08

Botswana swore in new president Duma Boko Friday, cementing a whirlwind change of government after his landslide election victory last week kicked out the party in power for nearly 60 years. Boko, 54, took the oath in front of several thousand people in the national stadium just nine days after his Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) crushed the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) at the ballot box. "For nearly three score years, our democracy rema......

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