{"id":209141,"date":"2025-10-07T07:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-somaliland-electoral-commission-wins-global-award-for-transparent-elections-in-botswana\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T07:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:25:04","slug":"botswana-somaliland-electoral-commission-wins-global-award-for-transparent-elections-in-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-somaliland-electoral-commission-wins-global-award-for-transparent-elections-in-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Somaliland Electoral Commission Wins Global Award for Transparent Elections in Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Gaborone, Botswana \u2014 Somaliland&#8217;s National Electoral Commission (NEC) has been honored with the Transparent Election Award in Botswana, recognizing its credible and transparent management of last year&#8217;s national polls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The accolade, reserved for electoral bodies that uphold the highest standards of integrity and professionalism, reaffirms Somaliland&#8217;s reputation for conducting open and interference-free elections where citizens freely choose their leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">In a statement, the Commission&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510060411.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 Somaliland&#8217;s National Electoral Commission (NEC) has been honored with the Transparent Election Award in Botswana, recognizing its credible and transparent management of last year&#8217;s national polls. The accolade, reserved for electoral bodies that uphold the highest standards of integrity and professionalism, reaffirms Somaliland&#8217;s reputation for conducting open and interference-free elections where citizens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209142,"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":[258,256,5692,4718,2462,6274,821,7239,6212,257,869,254,10543,6552],"class_list":["post-209141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-award","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-commission","tag-elections","tag-electoral","tag-global","tag-news","tag-somaliland","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transparent","tag-wins"],"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\/209141","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=209141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}