{"id":199920,"date":"2025-06-11T01:01:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-boko-mulls-military-hub\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T01:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:01:57","slug":"botswana-boko-mulls-military-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-boko-mulls-military-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Boko Mulls Military Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Just days after President Duma Boko announced Botswana&#8217;s ambition to develop a military industry and a hub for military excellence, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) hosted a delegation from the Air Force War College, Nigeria, and the Botswana Defence Force (BDF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">The delegation visited BIUST as part of their international study tour themed &#8220;Military Industrial Complex and National Security: Lessons for Nigeria.&#8221; The visit highlighted the vital link between&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506100432.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>Just days after President Duma Boko announced Botswana&#8217;s ambition to develop a military industry and a hub for military excellence, Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) hosted a delegation from the Air Force War College, Nigeria, and the Botswana Defence Force (BDF). The delegation visited BIUST as part of their international study tour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4264,4718,2462,7448,3318,13539,257,254],"class_list":["post-199920","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-hub","tag-military","tag-mulls","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/199920","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=199920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}