{"id":9558,"date":"2018-04-01T19:10:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T01:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9558"},"modified":"2018-04-01T19:10:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T01:10:24","slug":"botswana-president-ian-khama-officially-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/botswana-president-ian-khama-officially-steps-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana president Ian Khama officially steps down after end of tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"article-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<section class=\"article__body\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p class=\"u-m0\">Botswana\u2019s president Ian Khama has officially stepped down. The retired army general exited on Saturday handing the diamond-rich country to vice-president, Mokgweetsi Masisi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content__text article-content__left-column\">\n<p>Khama, a 65-year old bachelor, is known as a straight talker having publicly criticised leaders including US President Donald Trump for an alleged slur against African countries and former Zimbabwe\u2019s president Robert Mugabe as well <span class=\"caps\">DRC<\/span>\u2019s Joseph Kabila for overstaying their welcome.<\/p>\n<p>55 year-old Masisi inherits a country that has for decades been heralded as a beacon of African democracy and sound economic management but faces a huge task of reducing the country\u2019s dependence on diamonds.<\/p>\n<p>Masisi, a trained teacher who has also worked for the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund as an education project officer for eight years until 2003, was elected lawmaker in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>He served in the president\u2019s office as a minister of public affairs from 2011 until 2014 when Khama named him minister of education, a post he held until appointed Vice President last year.<\/p>\n<p>He becomes only the third leader to take charge of the southern African nation outside the Khama political dynasty. The dynasty dominated national politics since independence from Britain in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Botswana law restricts the president to serving two five-year terms, and provides for the vice president to automatically fill the post should it become vacant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana\u2019s president Ian Khama has officially stepped down. The retired army general exited on Saturday handing the diamond-rich country to vice-president, Mokgweetsi Masisi. Khama, a 65-year old bachelor, is known as a straight talker having publicly criticised leaders including US President Donald Trump for an alleged slur against African countries and former Zimbabwe\u2019s president Robert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[322],"class_list":["post-9558","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-world","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Botswana president Ian Khama officially steps down after end of tenure<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Botswana president Ian Khama officially steps down after end of tenure\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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