Former Botswana president Ian Khama is preparing to sue his government for allegedly defaming him, and has asked British barrister Cherie Blair's Omnia Strategy firm to help with the investigations. It's an unprecedented move but, he believes, a necessary one.
In a VIP suite at Lanseria Airport, the trained pilot who once held the reins of one of Africa's model democracies is talking about crash landings. Former Botswana president Ian Khama is planning to sue the government - which he voluntarily left last year - for "spinning a web of lies and deceit against me and others back home, and South African citizens".
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