Botswana: Former Botswana President Ketumile Masire Dies

Botswana's former leader Ketumile Masire has died. He played a key role in spearheading the country's economic growth and brokering a peace deal in Mozambique between the opposition party Renamo and the government.

According to an aide, Masire, 91, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family in a hospital in the capital Gaborone. "We thank well-wishers and friends from near and far, for their prayers, thoughts and comforting messages of support during this difficult time," Fraser Tlhoiwe, who acted as Masire's senior private secretary until the time of his death, said in a statement.

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