Word: botswanan
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...signed 18 months ago and broken ever since. But the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda, which both back Congolese rebel groups and have their own troops in the vast central African country, refused to attend. In a small breakthrough, Congolese President Joseph Kabila said he would accept the former Botswanan leader, Ketumile Masire, as a mediator. Joseph's father, the former Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila, who was assassinated last month, had rejected Masire's involvement...
...observers detect in her story an echo of British colonial Kenya's decadent White Mischief years (depicted in the 1987 film based on James Fox's book), hers is a decidedly less glamorous version of that early-1940s tale of adultery and murder among the bluebloods. Still, according to Botswanan prosecutors, the Bosch case similarly embraced "the four Ls of murder-love, loot, lust and loathing...
...While Cameron's case creeps through the Tanzanian bureaucracy, Bosch's life is in the hands of Botswanan President Festus Mogae. He has the power to grant her clemency, but legal observers say that is unlikely, given the courts' unanimity. Bosch lost her final appeal despite the legal muscle of Desmond de Silva, a British barrister who has saved 35 clients from the gallows, and South Africa has not come to her aid. "Here we have what we call unbuntu, which means we honor our fellow men because they are human," says Grace Morgorosi, a secretary in Gaborone...