Africa-Press – Botswana. Djibouti president, Mr Ismail Omar Guelleh has congratulated President Advocate Duma Boko for his electoral victory to become the sixth President of Botswana.
Special envoy to Djibouti president, Minister of Justice and Human Rights Mr Ali Hassan Bahdon delivered the written congratulatory message during a courtesy call at the Office of the President on Friday.
President Boko thanked President Guelleh for the message and expressed gratitude that other African nations appreciated the role Botswana could play within the continent.
“We are immensely overjoyed when we have other African nations coming by, appreciating the role that we can play and in the process enabling the country to access possible affinities and collaborations between countries and, in the ultimate instance, reshaping of the institutions that governed the nations on the African continent,” he said.
He said the solidarity that Africans believed in, would enable the continent to face challenges and work on raising the profile of each country collectively.
To achieve this, President Boko said there was need for bold leadership and radical changes in the way things had been done in various countries.
Further, he encouraged African nations to begin to foster and reclaim their place in the unipolar world and proceed firmly to entrench multi-literalism and move away from the unilateralism that had typified relations between nation states and geographic blocks.
Handing over the message, Minister Hassan Bahdon said Djibouti was proud of Botswana for a peaceful and orderly transition, saying such was the type of leadership Africa needed.
“We need dynamic leadership in Africa. We need people who can discuss with others, at the same level equally and who can give African population the prosperity it deserves,” he said.
With elections of the African Union Commission (AU) chairperson just around the corner, he informed President Boko that Djibouti had nominated Mr Mahmoud Ali Youssouf as its candidate in the upcoming African Union Commission elections next year. Candidates for AU chairperson position will participate in the upcoming Africa Leadership Debate, dubbed: MjadalaAfrica, scheduled for December 13 in Addis Ababa.
The debate will afford candidates an opportunity to outline their visions of how they would lead the transformation of Africa through the implementation of the AU mandate and Africa’s Agenda 2063.
In February 2025, the Assembly of Heads of State and Government would elect and appoint the chairperson who would then lead the continent’s agenda for the next four years.
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