Twenty-four teams are made up of 86 observers, coming from Angola, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The observers are divided into three teams and deployed to Gaborone Central/south, Gaborone West and Mogoditshane. The team is compromised of two members from two different SADC Member States.
“The observers have been in Gaborone since last week where they underwent refresher training on election observation offered by the SADC secretariat and conducted by the Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA),” said SADC public relations head, Leefa Martin. She said the observers were also addressed by stakeholders - the Independent Electoral Commission, Botswana Police Service, political parties and the civil society.
