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Botswana’s new president took office on Friday after a fast transfer of power after elections that ended nearly 60 years of rule by the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP).<\/p>\n
Duma Boko was sworn in during a private ceremony with the chief justice three days after the elections. The elections resulted in the BDP losing power.<\/p>\n
The 54-year-old human rights lawyer\u00a0later gave a speech and held a press briefing that was shown live on state television. He spoke about his plans, like raising the minimum…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Botswana’s new president took office on Friday after a fast transfer of power after elections that ended nearly 60 years of rule by the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP). Duma Boko was sworn in during a private ceremony with the chief justice three days after the elections. The elections resulted in the BDP losing power. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660448:31a48c05618c409baa1381e7ff99f807:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4264,4718,2462,10477,49585,6900,257,2450,254],"class_list":["post-183924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-botswanas","tag-duma","tag-fail","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660448:31a48c05618c409baa1381e7ff99f807:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183924","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=183924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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