Botswana’s President Masisi concedes after his party lost ‘massively’
Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Eric Masisi has accepted defeat as his Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) party lost its parliamentary majority, ending an era for one of Africa’s independence liberation movements. The BDP has been in power since independence in 1966, even though Botswana has consistently replaced its leaders at the polls. But, in this one, BDP had…