Botswana's President and leader of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), Mokgweetsi Masisi arrives at a rally in Thamaga village, about 40 km west of the capital city Gaborone, Botswana, October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Siyabonga Sishi
GABORONE (Reuters) - Botswana voted on Wednesday in a general election that is expected to provide the first genuine challenge to the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in its five decades of dominance over southern Africa's wealthiest and most stable nation.
Whichever party wins will have to move swiftly to transform the economy, which since independence from Britain in 1966 has grown at 8% a year to become one of Africa's most successful, but now risks coming unstuck because of over-reliance on a single commodity - diamonds.
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