{"id":184844,"date":"2024-11-18T11:38:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T09:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-congratulations-on-historic-botswana-elections\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T11:38:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T09:38:16","slug":"botswana-congratulations-on-historic-botswana-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-congratulations-on-historic-botswana-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Congratulations on Historic Botswana Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em> Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of State<\/em><br \/><em>November 1, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The United States congratulates the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and President-elect Duma Boko on their historic victory in Botswana\u2019s 2024 elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Botswana\u2019s free elections reflect the voice of the people of Botswana in shaping their future. \u00a0The United States reaffirms our support for Botswana\u2019s long-standing commitment to democracy and our shared partnership rooted in common values.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">We also commend President Dr&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411040070.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>Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of StateNovember 1, 2024 The United States congratulates the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and President-elect Duma Boko on their historic victory in Botswana\u2019s 2024 elections. Botswana\u2019s free elections reflect the voice of the people of Botswana in shaping their future. \u00a0The United States reaffirms our support for Botswana\u2019s long-standing commitment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184845,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,11364,821,13203,257,254],"class_list":["post-184844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-congratulations","tag-elections","tag-historic","tag-news","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\/184844","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=184844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}