{"id":215909,"date":"2025-12-06T21:49:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T19:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-border-officials-crucial-in-fight-against-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T19:49:56","slug":"botswana-border-officials-crucial-in-fight-against-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-border-officials-crucial-in-fight-against-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Border Officials Crucial in Fight Against Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Francistown \u2014 Assistant Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Mr Augustine Nyatanga, says border officials play critical role in combating human trafficking and smuggling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Speaking at a one-day capacity building training for border officials in Francistown Thursday, Mr Nyatanga emphasised the critical role border officials played in national security, migration management and human rights protection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The one-day capacity-building training, funded by the United Kingdom government, aimed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512020055.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>Francistown \u2014 Assistant Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Mr Augustine Nyatanga, says border officials play critical role in combating human trafficking and smuggling. Speaking at a one-day capacity building training for border officials in Francistown Thursday, Mr Nyatanga emphasised the critical role border officials played in national security, migration management and human rights protection. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215910,"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":[258,256,1900,4718,2462,7774,4345,257,6651,254,6615],"class_list":["post-215909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-crucial","tag-fight","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trafficking"],"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\/215909","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=215909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}