President Mokgweetsi Masisi's supporters in his bitter struggle with former mentor and predecessor Ian Khama are congratulating themselves following a court ruling that has neutered Khama's plans to return to politics...

The independence of Botswana's judiciary is in the spotlight following accusations by a tribal chief that President Mokgweetsi Masisi told her he would direct judges on how to rule in a case in which her Balete tribe is fighting the government over land...

Khama and Bridgette have previously been accused by Botswana of trying to overthrow his successor President Mokgweetsi Masisi and of involvement in money laundering (AC Vol 60 No 7 Stumbles at the falls)...

With just three months left for Botswana and De Beers to agree on a new long-term deal for billions of dollars in diamond mining cutting and sales President Mokgweetsi Masisi sees an historic chance for his country...

Security agents raided the homes of former President Ian Khama on 23-25 October in search of unlicensed weapons and arrested his ally former spy chief Isaac Kgosi as President Mokgweetsi Masisi goes for the jugular after suffering recent defeats in a long-running feud with his predecessor (AC Vol 62 No 18 Presidents trade more blows)...

The hearings which will see 22 witnesses being called six of them from Namibia could be explosive and potentially force President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his Namibian counterpart Hage Geingob to shift stances...

It is the latest in three years of confrontations between the ex-president and his hand-picked successor Mokgweetsi Masisi and they are not going well for the incumbent...

Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi who chairs the SADC Organ Troika on Politics Defence and Security said a second fact–finding mission will open discussions with politicians and activists demanding reform or abolition of the absolute monarchy...

Nyusi had tried to keep the Cabo Delgado insurgency off the agenda of the security organ of the Southern African Development Community but President Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana and Zimbabwe's Emmerson Mnangagwa were hurriedly covening regional consultations just days after the Palma attacks (AC Vol 62 No 3 Nyusi's loyalty test)...