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Cleaning up Khama's mess

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President Mokgweetsi Masisi, hosted his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame for two days this week, soon after returning from a Wildlife summit in Zimbabwe in what many view as efforts to rekindle broken relations with foreign nations and clean up his predecessor's mess. Minus the contorversy over his failure to attend the 12th US-Africa Business Summit in Maputo, Mozambique last week, Masisi has done a sterling job in selling Botswana to the world hardly a year after taking office. Last week, upon returning from a week long trip to a strategic market (the US) for diamonds, the backbone of the economy, Masisi fired potshots at his predecessor saying his official state visits and attending international summits is what Botswana has not be known for in the past 10 years. Masisi told journalists that he is only leading by example as the head of state hence fully putting Botswana where it belongs. He said he is not just roaming the world but he is forging ties with the leaders and important economic stakeholders of the countries that he visits adding that his recent visit to USA has been fruitful. While Masisi’s predecessor Khama was known for shunning the international critical forums such…

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