Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi conceded election defeat on Friday after preliminary results showed that his party – which had been in power for 58 years – failed to win enough seats to govern. Masisi’s presidency was marred by high unemployment and allegations of corruption, nepotism and mismanagement.

In a landmark case, Botswana’s High Court has scraped anti-gay laws which made homosexuality punishable by a jail term, saying “there’s nothing reasonable in discriminating”.