Third time lucky: Botswana human rights lawyer Duma Boko, 54, led his opposition alliance to a historic victory, dislodging a party in power for nearly 60 years

GABORONE – Botswana’s president-elect Duma Boko is a human rights lawyer who spent three decades in opposition fighting to dislodge the party in power for nearly 60 years before clinching his surprise landslide victory.

The 54-year-old Harvard graduate inspired voters in the arid southern African country to turn out in large numbers for Wednesday’s elections that ended the six-decade rule of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), which took power on independence.

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