Botswana goes to polls

People in Botswana, where more than a third of the population is HIV positive, go to the polls today in elections that were expected to be dominated by the ruling party – like every other vote since the southern African country gained independence nearly four decades ago.

President Festus Mogae was expected to easily win a second and final term and his Botswana Democratic Party to maintain its firm majority in the country’s 57-seat Parliament.