Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi

After shaking off a challenge for the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) leadership President Mokgweetsi Masisi has begun a clear-out of the ruling party and cabinet ahead of elections in October...

On 18 March contractor Daewoo suspended works and after Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi visited Lungu on 2 April it appears Botswana may pay Zambia's share...

President Mokgweetsi Masisi has fended off a dangerous challenge for the leadership of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from former senior cabinet minister Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi widely seen as a stalking horse for former President Ian Khama...

The power struggle between President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his predecessor Ian Khama has taken an extra-territorial twist with the involvement of Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organisation...

Ex-President Ian Khama's anger at his successor President Mokgweetsi Masisi is so strong that he is backing a rival candidate to remove him from the leadership of the ruling Botswana Democratic Party at its elective congress in July...

Mnangagwa is said to have sought backing for the project from South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa Botswana's former President Ian Khama and his successor Mokgweetsi Masisi...

Although President Mokgweetsi Masisi underwent a lengthy grooming process Khama now says he prematurely handed over power...

Former President Ian Khama's supporters are accusing his successor Mokgweetsi Masisi of presiding over the mass slaughter of elephants by ivory hunters in Botswana...

It looks more than accidental that the story about Mike Chase's claims of mass slaughter of elephants in Botswana broke while President Mokgweetsi Masisi was in China for the Forum on China Africa Cooperation in early September...

Ending weeks of controversy President Mokgweetsi Masisi announced that the government was rowing back on a scheme to introduce electronic voting machines in next year's general election...

After sidelining many party stalwarts and making a unilateral decision to anoint Mokgweetsi Masisi as the new President of Botswana Ian Khama is now ruing his choice...