President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi has admitted that the nation faces a myriad of socio-economic challenges that include high levels of unemployment. Addressing the nation after taking the oath during his inauguration at the University of Botswana on Friday morning, Masisi conceded that challenges lie ahead of him and need urgent measures to combat high unemployment particularly amongst youth. Delivering a sermon at the inauguration, BDF Chaplain Colonel David Taote Mapitse of UCCSA said Masisi assumes the office in the midst of crisis besieging the nation such as unemployment. Referring to Masisi as just an ordinary man from Moshupa and likening him to the biblical God messenger Nehemiah, he said Masisi should be bound to serve nothing but the will of the people. “Our nation is expecting a lot from the political leadership that has been bestowed with new responsibility to lead in the just ended elections. It is your duty Mr president to curb the crisis that has hit hard on the country. Let young people be employed to curb poverty,“ Mapitse said. For his part Masisi said in the early nineties Botswana bore the brunt of HIV and AIDS epidemic and lost thousands of its people’s lives as a…