The breakthrough hopefully ending more than two years of violent conflict is a result of the Grand National Dialogue called by President Paul Biya.

The Senate still has to approve the Bill before it is promulgated.

When they do the regions in the north west snd south west of the country – which have complained about being marginalized by the Francophone majority – will be allowed to develop public policies in the area of education and justice.

President Paul Biya is betting on this decentralization law putting the brakes on secession talks by the Anglophones in addition to ending the conflict that has cost more than  3 000 lives.

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Amnesty International calls on the government in Botswana not to carry out its threat to forcibly remove them.

The members of the secessionist United Democratic Party, now banned in Namibia, say the reasons for their fleeing to Botswana 20 years go still exist.

Some of their comrades are still imprisoned in Namibia and the Windhoek government has refused their call for dialogue.

Their leader Felix Kalula does not believe the assurance from Namibian President Heine Geingob that they will be safe back home.

His Botswana counterpart Mokgweetsi Mashishi insists his government will enforce a court order for the refugees to be repatriated next month.

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