{"id":232551,"date":"2026-05-07T04:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-kagame-arrives-in-botswana-for-state-visit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:04:54","slug":"botswana-kagame-arrives-in-botswana-for-state-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-kagame-arrives-in-botswana-for-state-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Kagame Arrives in Botswana for State Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">President Paul Kagame on Wednesday, May 6, arrived in Gaborone, Botswana for a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/35263\/news\/international\/kagame-expected-in-botswana-for-state-visit\" rel=\"noopener\">two-day State Visit<\/a> and was received by President Duma Boko at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">On Wednesday afternoon, the two Heads of State will hold a t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate meeting followed by bilateral talks between their respective delegations, before addressing a joint press conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/35405\/news\/international\/things-to-know-about-botswana-as-kagame-visits-gaborone\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Things to know about Botswana as Kagame visits Gaborone<\/strong><\/a><\/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&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605060540.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 on Wednesday, May 6, arrived in Gaborone, Botswana for a two-day State Visit and was received by President Duma Boko at Sir Seretse Khama International Airport. On Wednesday afternoon, the two Heads of State will hold a t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate meeting followed by bilateral talks between their respective delegations, before addressing a joint press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232552,"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":[258,256,8692,4718,2462,7722,257,254,6017,6250],"class_list":["post-232551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrives","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-kagame","tag-news","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\/232551","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=232551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}