{"id":225496,"date":"2026-02-27T13:01:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-regional-cooperation-key-in-cross-border-crime-fight\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:01:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:01:56","slug":"botswana-regional-cooperation-key-in-cross-border-crime-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-regional-cooperation-key-in-cross-border-crime-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Regional Cooperation Key in Cross Border Crime Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Kasane \u2014 Botswana stands ready to work with Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe and all SADC member states to promote a secure, stable, and prosperous Southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Through regional cooperation mechanisms such as Operation USALAMA and the broader SADC security framework, progress to that effect has been realised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">This came to light during a high-level consultative meeting that is part of the implementation of the decisions of the 2nd Bi-National Commission between Namibia and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602270043.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>Kasane \u2014 Botswana stands ready to work with Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe and all SADC member states to promote a secure, stable, and prosperous Southern Africa. Through regional cooperation mechanisms such as Operation USALAMA and the broader SADC security framework, progress to that effect has been realised. This came to light during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225497,"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":[258,256,1900,4718,2462,6454,5357,8816,4345,7274,257,4268,254],"class_list":["post-225496","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-cooperation","tag-crime","tag-cross","tag-fight","tag-key","tag-news","tag-regional","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\/225496","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=225496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}