The poll’s got the thumbs up from the country’s neighbours.

Ian Khama’s won a second term as president and will be sworn in tomorrow.

The Botswana Democratic Party takes credit for moving the diamond-rich country from a poor cattle-herding protectorate to one of the richest per-capita African nations.

Ian Khama, son of the indepedendence leader Seretse Kahma, had to fight off a challenge from a new political alliance and a breakaway party.

The BDP won a comfortable parliamentary majority in the 61-member parliament albeit with eight seats fewer than they captured in 2009.

The new opposition capitalised on unemployment caused by diamond prices falling in the global economic crisis that year.

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