GABORONE, Dec 10 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrived in Botswana late Sunday from Mauritius for the third leg of her swansong African tour.

Albright is due to meet President Festus Mogae and Foreign Minister Mompati Merafhe in the Botswana capital Monday.

She is also expected to visit an HIV/AIDS centre in the arid southern African country, which has the world's highest incidence of HIV, with more than one in three adults infected.

Albright flew to Botswana from the Indian Ocean republic of Mauritius where she met Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth and praised his democracy earlier Sunday.

She arrived in the capital Port Louis on Saturday from South Africa, where she started her tour of the continent Thursday.

Albright is to leave Botswana late Monday for Algiers to attend the signing of a peace accord between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

She will then move on to Budapest, then to Brussels for a NATO ministerial meeting on December 14-15.

This is Albright's fourth -- and last -- trip to Africa as secretary of state. She is accompanied by Under Secretary of State for African Affairs Susan Rice, one of the principal architects of a renewed US interest in Africa over the past few years.

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