The Sunday Independent

RACE FOR TOP SADC POST

BOTSWANA has turned down a request that it withdraw its candidate for the post of executive secretary in the Southern African Development Community, local media reported on Friday. The Democratic Republic of Congo proposed that Botswana pull out its candidate Elias Magosi, the state-run Daily News newspaper quoted President Mokgweetsi Masisi, pictured, as telling journalists on Thursday. The two countries could not reach consensus to field one candidate.

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