Botswana: Masisi and Khama Square Off Again

Botswana’s President Masisi confronts his arch-rival at next week’s election, but the real enemy may be elsewhere.

Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi faces two major challenges when he seeks re-election on 30 October. One is his predecessor and now bitter rival, Ian Khama; the other is lab-grown diamonds. On the plus side, he is competing with an opposition that has failed to fully unite against him.

Masisi fell out with Khama after he succeeded him as president in 2018. Some of the issues that…