Khama strikes Mugabe, put silencers on NGOs

Mugabe and Khama at a previous meeting
Mugabe and Khama at a previous meeting

A few days after denying Botswana coalition of Non Governmental Organisations two permits to march against the Zimbabwean situation, President Ian Khama launched a scarthing attack on President Robert Mugabe, a move that sources say shocked NGOs.

A group of NGOs say they wanted to march on September 16, 2016 but were denied permits by the Officer Commanding of No. 3 District at Broadhurst Police Station on the grounds that the march was “likely to cause or lead to a breach of peace”. They wrote a second request to hold a gathering at Gaborone Senior Secondary School grounds which was denied on the same grounds.

This week Khama granted an international news agency, Reuters an interview in which he denounced Mugabe.

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