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1939–2026 Botswana
Festus Gontebanye Mogae (21 August 1939 – 8 May 2026) was a Motswana politician and economist who served as the third President of Botswana from 1998 to 2008.
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The only country I mentioned at the UN meeting is South Africa which I said is the most liberal when it comes to issues concerning LGBT groups.
First, of course, we are teaching the A-B-Cs, abstain, be faithful and condomize.
In other words, whatever economic rate we achieve, it would be one-and-a-half percentage points less than what it would have been in absence of HIV.
I believe one of the secrets of our success has been our commitment to empowering all members of our society.
These stakeholders determine the credibility of the elections and their involvement is critical.
The experts tell us that the effect of the HIV prevalence in our population would reduce our potential growth rate by one-and-a-half percentage points annually.
I observe in this Forum's founding document, and indeed also in the draft constitution of the regional body to which it is to be affiliated, recognition that journalists and media owners have a common duty to work to the highest professional standards and ethics.
Citizens, political parties, civil society organisations, election observers, media, law enforcement agencies, candidates and their functionaries.
The government must always listen to the public and political pressures build up and respond in a considered manner and in the best interest of peace and stability of the country.
I am appealing to all citizens of Gaborone, including the business community, to appeal to the council's cooperation. We should have a small and clean capital city, decorated with trees. Let it be our vision that by 2016 we will have planted trees all over the country.
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