{"id":178589,"date":"2024-08-15T15:25:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-u-s-address-challenges-facing-women-in-military\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T15:25:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:25:27","slug":"botswana-u-s-address-challenges-facing-women-in-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-u-s-address-challenges-facing-women-in-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana, U.S. Address Challenges Facing Women in Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Gaborone, Botswana \u2014 U.S. and Botswanan military personnel took part in a workshop focusing on better integrating women into the African country&#8217;s army, addressing issues such as sexual harassment and the need for tailored equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The three-day workshop was part of a larger program wrapping up Thursday intended to strengthen relations between the two countries and build local forces&#8217; capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Major Teisha Barnes, military operations officer of the U.S. Army Southern European Task Force,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408150028.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone, Botswana \u2014 U.S. and Botswanan military personnel took part in a workshop focusing on better integrating women into the African country&#8217;s army, addressing issues such as sexual harassment and the need for tailored equipment. The three-day workshop was part of a larger program wrapping up Thursday intended to strengthen relations between the two countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[7325,258,256,4718,2462,6977,10458,3318,257,254,2282,6524],"class_list":["post-178589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-address","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-challenges","tag-facing","tag-military","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}