Another Summit, another snub
Thursday, August 07, 2014
The meeting was not designed as a come-together party for the more than 50 African leaders and Obama. It was a serious meeting to discuss critical issues affecting Africa’s development and its partnership with the world’s single largest economy. That is why presidents such as South Africa’s Jacob Zuma did not attend alone.
He pulled along his vice-president. Every other invited president attended, except for Botswana’s Ian Khama, and the presidents of Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
We duly congratulate them to have ousted the long ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power. Prior to taking power from the BDP, the coalition had made several election promises that are credited for influencing change and swaying the people to vote in its favour.The party had made an undertaking, which its leader and President Duma Boko consistently bellowed in his campaign trail. These undertakings were promises that Batswana would be...