Botswana’s Khama says priming to oust successor Masisi

Botswana’s former president Ian Khama has vowed to vigorously campaign to dethrone his handpicked successor Mokgweetsi Masisi, now a bitter rival whom he accuses of being a threat to democracy, in next year’s elections.

The 70-year-old Khama, governed one of Africa’s most stable democracies and its top diamond producing nation for a decade until 2018, before handing the reigns to Masisi, then his deputy.

South Africa-based Khama now…