{"id":210389,"date":"2025-10-19T07:52:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-to-host-african-biodiversity-summit-in-november\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:52:51","slug":"botswana-to-host-african-biodiversity-summit-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-to-host-african-biodiversity-summit-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana to Host African Biodiversity Summit in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Gaborone \u2014 Botswana will host the African Biodiversity Summit in Gaborone from November 2 to 5, in collaboration with the African Union Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The gathering will be held under the theme &#8220;Leveraging Africa&#8217;s Biodiversity for Prosperity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Giving an overview of the summit to members of the diplomatic corps this morning, Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, Dr Patricia Mogomotsi, said the event will provide a vital platform to transform Africa&#8217;s vast natural&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510070524.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 \u2014 Botswana will host the African Biodiversity Summit in Gaborone from November 2 to 5, in collaboration with the African Union Commission. The gathering will be held under the theme &#8220;Leveraging Africa&#8217;s Biodiversity for Prosperity.&#8221; Giving an overview of the summit to members of the diplomatic corps this morning, Acting Permanent Secretary in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210390,"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":[258,256,4380,16449,4718,2462,6937,257,16554,254,5757],"class_list":["post-210389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-biodiversity","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-host","tag-news","tag-november","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summit"],"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\/210389","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=210389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}