{"id":229470,"date":"2026-04-04T02:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswanas-president-seeks-to-strengthen-trade-relations-with-namibia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:15:59","slug":"botswanas-president-seeks-to-strengthen-trade-relations-with-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswanas-president-seeks-to-strengthen-trade-relations-with-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana&#8217;s President Seeks to Strengthen Trade Relations With Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>President Duma Boko of Botswana says part of his country&#8217;s plans with Namibia is to strengthen trade between both counties.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">He says he also wants to strengthen bilateral relations with Namibia, rooted in shared history and economic goals established by the first political leaders of both nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">During his courtesy visit to president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah at State House on Friday, discussions focused on trade, bilateral relations, and strengthening regional cooperation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603230036.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>President Duma Boko of Botswana says part of his country&#8217;s plans with Namibia is to strengthen trade between both counties. He says he also wants to strengthen bilateral relations with Namibia, rooted in shared history and economic goals established by the first political leaders of both nations. During his courtesy visit to president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229471,"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":[258,256,2462,10477,4706,257,2450,6434,8111,254,6433,5979],"class_list":["post-229470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana-news","tag-botswanas","tag-namibia","tag-news","tag-president","tag-relations","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthen","tag-trade"],"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\/229470","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=229470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}