{"id":231882,"date":"2026-04-30T15:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/rwanda-kagame-expected-in-botswana-for-state-visit\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:48:25","slug":"rwanda-kagame-expected-in-botswana-for-state-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/rwanda-kagame-expected-in-botswana-for-state-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda: Kagame Expected in Botswana for State Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">President Paul Kagame is expected in Botswana from May 6 to 7 at the invitation of the country&#8217;s President Duma Gideon Boko.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">This was announced in a statement shared by the Government of Botswana on Wednesday, April 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><strong>ALSO READ: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/167665\/News\/rwanda-botswana-commit-to-strengthen-ties\" rel=\"noopener\">Rwanda, Botswana commit to strengthen ties<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The visit will be preceded by the Second Session of the Rwanda-Botswana Joint Permanent Commission on Cooperation (JPCC), scheduled for May 4 to 5, reflecting&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604300101.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 Paul Kagame is expected in Botswana from May 6 to 7 at the invitation of the country&#8217;s President Duma Gideon Boko. This was announced in a statement shared by the Government of Botswana on Wednesday, April 29. ALSO READ: Rwanda, Botswana commit to strengthen ties Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231883,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6474,7722,257,4702,254,6017,6250],"class_list":["post-231882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-expected","tag-kagame","tag-news","tag-rwanda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-visit"],"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\/231882","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=231882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}