Mokgweetsi Masisi is the fifth and current President of Botswana, succeeding Ian Khama in April 2018. Masisi was elected president in October 2017 and was sworn in on 1 April 2018. He is a member of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which has been in power since independence in 1966.
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