{"id":230756,"date":"2026-04-20T03:25:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-authorities-probe-fmd-threats-on-bmc\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T03:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:25:44","slug":"botswana-authorities-probe-fmd-threats-on-bmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-authorities-probe-fmd-threats-on-bmc\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Authorities Probe Fmd Threats On BMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Gaborone \u2014 Acting Minister of Lands and Agriculture, Dr Edwin Dikoloti has revealed that investigations are underway into threatening emails sent to Botswana Meat Commission (BMC), raising concern over a possible link to the ongoing Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Addressing the media during a briefing in Gaborone April 13, he said two separate threats were received; the first sent in February, demanding a payment of US$500,000 in Bitcoin, with the sender threatening to deliberately spread&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604140651.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 Acting Minister of Lands and Agriculture, Dr Edwin Dikoloti has revealed that investigations are underway into threatening emails sent to Botswana Meat Commission (BMC), raising concern over a possible link to the ongoing Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak. Addressing the media during a briefing in Gaborone April 13, he said two separate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230757,"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":[258,256,7215,34396,4718,2462,5951,257,5805,254,7611],"class_list":["post-230756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authorities","tag-bmc","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-fmd","tag-news","tag-probe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threats"],"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\/230756","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=230756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}