Botswana: AU Team to Evaluate Botswana Elections

At the invitation of the Independent Electoral Commission of Botswana, Prof. Alpha Oumar Konare, Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, sent a 15-member multidisciplinary team of observers to participate in the forthcoming general elections, which will be held countrywide on October 30. The African Union Observer Team, led by Hon. Justice J. B. Kalaile, Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission in Malawi and composed of Parliamentarians, members of Electoral Management Bodies, Civil Society Organisations and other officials drawn from various African Countries, arrived in Botswana on October 24.