(AP Photo). Voters queue to cast their votes at a polling station in Gaberone, Botswana, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014.
(AP Photo). Voters queue to cast their votes at a polling station in Gaberone, Botswana, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014.
(AP Photo). A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Gaberone, Botswana, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014.
(AP Photo). A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Gaberone, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014.
(AP Photo). A voter casts her ballot at a polling station in Gaberone, Botswana, Friday, Oct. 24, 2014.
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GABORONE, Botswana (AP) - Botswana's government announced that the incumbent president Ian Khama has been appointed to a second term.
The southern African country's newly elected parliament voted for Khama Sunday after his party, the Botswana Democratic Party, won a majority of seats in the national election. Khama, who was first voted into to office in the 2009 election and who is the son of independence leader Seretse Khama, will be sworn in on Tuesday, according to state media.
The BDP, which has been in power since the country's independence from Britain in 1966, won 36 seats in the peaceful general election on Friday according to an announcement in the Botswana Daily News.
An opposition group, the Umbrella for Democratic Change, won fifteen seats and another group, the Botswana Congress Party, secured three seats.
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