“I Duma Gideon Boko, do swear that I will faithfully and diligently discharge my duties and perform my functions in the high office of president of the Republic of Botswana.” :: The former ruling ...

Botswana inaugurated opposition leader Duma Boko on Friday following a historic election that kicked out former ruling Botswana Democratic Party by a landslide loss for the first time in 58 years.

Botswana's president-elect Duma Boko is a human rights lawyer who spent three decades in opposition fighting to dislodge the party in power for nearly 60 years before clinching his surprise landslide ...

Few predicted the seismic election upset that made Duma Boko President of Botswana. Last October, the 55-year-old Harvard-trained lawyer ousted the party that had ruled the nation of 2.5 million ...