JOHANNESBURG-Botswana holds a national election on Oct.... 30, with President Mokgweetsi Masisi favourite to win a second term against three challengers in a nation his Botswana Democratic Party( BDP) has governed since independence from Britain in 1966. Voters elect National Assembly members, who then pick the president.... He retained the presidency when his BDP party won the 2019 election. The 63-year-old is a former schoolteacher who worked for U.N. children's agency UNICEF before entering