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Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of State President, Defence, and Security Ms. Goitsemang Morekisi, Commander of the Botswana Defence Force General Mpho Mophuting, distinguished visitors, guests, friends, and colleagues, thank you all for joining us on this important occasion. Today, we celebrate the enduring partnership between the United States and Botswana, specifically the C-130 program that began more than 30 years ago. We are commemorating this partnership with the delivery of nearly 13…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of State President, Defence, and Security Ms. Goitsemang Morekisi, Commander of the Botswana Defence Force General Mpho Mophuting, distinguished visitors, guests, friends, and colleagues, thank you all for joining us on this important occasion. Today, we celebrate the enduring partnership between the United States and Botswana, specifically the C-130 program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":221210,"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":[258,256,6269,4718,2462,53459,6358,16260,257,7980,9469,254,11199,53458],"class_list":["post-221209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambassador","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-c130","tag-ceremony","tag-handover","tag-news","tag-parts","tag-remarks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-van","tag-vranken"],"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\/221209","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=221209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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