Botswana

Botswana

Population: 1.8 million
GNI: $10400 million
Debt: $44 million
Overview: In early 2008, President Festus Mogae will step down in favour of Vice-President Ian Khama, who will try to resolve splits in the Botswana Democratic Party before legislative elections in 2009.

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  • Vol 49 No 20
  • 03/10/2008

Brotherly love

Botswana President Ian Khama's open criticism of President Robert Mugabe's regime has provoked a stream of vitriol from Zimbabwe's state-controlled media. Mugabe's officials referred to Khama's government as a military junta (Khama formerly headed Bot...

  • Vol 49 No 8
  • 11/04/2008

New man, new discipline

Ian Khama calmly takes over the presidency as bigger neighbours struggle with successions and elections

  • Vol 49 No 8
  • 11/04/2008

Diamond power

Economic diversification is the centrepiece of President Ian Khama's strategy and its first test will be in the diamond business. Botswana, the world's biggest producer of diamonds by volume and value, opened a US$93 million sorting and valuing facilit...

  • Vol 49 No 6
  • 14/03/2008

Inscrutable Khama

Vice-President Lieutenant General Ian Khama Seretse Khama, who is to take over as head of state within weeks, is a remarkably secretive politician. Even outgoing President Festus Mogae, who appointed Khama as his deputy five years ago, says he knows l...

  • Vol 47 No 12
  • 09/06/2006

Smiling all the way

Botswana will now market diamonds but De Beers' latest move may not please the neighbours

  • Vol 46 No 17
  • 26/08/2005

Khama digs in

President-in-Waiting Ian Khama Seretse Khama strengthened his position at July 's national congress of the governing Botswana Democratic Party, of which he is Chairman (AC Vol 46 No 12). One rival faction was led by Foreign Minister Mompati Merafhe an...

  • Vol 46 No 12
  • 10/06/2005

Factions and fractions

A bitter race looms for the Secretary Generalship of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) at its national congress on 21-23 July in Serowe. A compromise offered by Vice-President Ian Khama Seretse Khama, designated successor to President Festus ...

  • Vol 46 No 6
  • 18/03/2005

For the greater Good

By trying to expel an academic critic, the government is risking its reputation

  • Vol 45 No 23
  • 19/11/2004

Khama's coming

Africa's most successful democracy will soon be run by a military man

  • Vol 44 No 14
  • 11/07/2003

Mogae plays the Khama card

Traditional leadership and diamond money keep a stable democracy going

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