Ian Khama

On Thursday (Dec. 29), the judge issued orders that Ian Khama should be arrested on sight. The former leader is believed to be in South Africa, ...

Mr Khama left office in 2018 after two five-year terms. The warrant issued only regards the possession of five illegal firearms. An arrest warrant was issued in Botswana for former president Ian Khama for the possession of illegal firearms, on Thursday (Dec.

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On that same visit, he went to see the family of the late Zambian founding president Kenneth Kaunda. Since then, Khama has been travelling the world from his base in South Africa. In January he was in Zambia to visit the late former Zambian president Rupiah Banda, who was suffering from colon cancer.

Speaking exclusively to SABC, the former head of state says if law enforcement agencies in his country evoke the extradition treaty that binds South Africa and ...

I have said I am going to be there at the forefront. He says the people of Botswana need a change of government. It will assist me to divulge to reveal, to expose in a foreign court what has been going on in Botswana.

In the latest development arising from the fallout between Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his predecessor, a magistrate has issued a warrant for ...

[reported](https://www.ft.com/content/b7362496-f71a-11e9-9ef3-eca8fc8f2d65) that Khama had told the newspaper that Masisi was using intelligence agents to muzzle political opponents. He was convinced, "100 percent sure", he said, that the 2019 elections were rigged. One of the issues over which the two leaders fell out was Masisi's [decision in 2019](../stories/201905170517.html) to end a ban on elephant hunting which Khama had imposed in 2014. [fell out in 2019](../stories/201905280629.html) after Masisi, who had served as Khama's vice-president, had succeeded him as president at the end of his 10-year term in 2018. African Union observers declared that the election "conformed to international, continental and regional best practices and standards." The warrant was issued after Khama, who left Botswana in November 2021, failed to appear in court on charges including the illegal possession of firearms.

The former head of state is wanted for the unlawful possession of firearms and is to be apprehended on sight, according to the arrest warrant.

Last November, the SKI Khama Foundation released a statement alleging that the former president was the target of politically-motivated persecution. In turn, Khama has accused Masisi of authoritarianism. The pair have engaged in a war of words for some years now. Last month, the appellate court also denied the search warrant application . His co-accused — former spy chief Isaac Kgosi, suspended police commissioner Keabetswe Makgophe and Victor Paledi, the former director-general of Botswana’s corruption and economic crime directorate — did go to court. Khama is believed to be residing in South Africa.