{"id":232584,"date":"2026-05-07T16:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-things-to-know-about-botswana-as-kagame-visits-gaborone\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:06:38","slug":"botswana-things-to-know-about-botswana-as-kagame-visits-gaborone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-things-to-know-about-botswana-as-kagame-visits-gaborone\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Things to Know About Botswana As Kagame Visits Gaborone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/35263\/news\/international\/kagame-expected-in-botswana-for-state-visit\" rel=\"noopener\">Paul Kagame is expected in Gaborone<\/a> from May 6 to 7 for a state visit aimed at deepening ties between Rwanda and Botswana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The visit follows the Second Session of the Joint Permanent Commission on Cooperation (JPCC), where officials from both countries reviewed progress and prepared new agreements expected to boost collaboration in trade, tourism, transport connectivity, animal vaccines, and the diamond value chain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><strong>Also read:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/35372\/news\/politics\/rwanda-botswana-officials-talk-cooperation-ahead-of-kagames-visit-to-gaborone\" rel=\"noopener\">Rwanda, Botswana officials talk cooperation ahead of Kagame&#8217;s&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605070455.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 Gaborone from May 6 to 7 for a state visit aimed at deepening ties between Rwanda and Botswana. The visit follows the Second Session of the Joint Permanent Commission on Cooperation (JPCC), where officials from both countries reviewed progress and prepared new agreements expected to boost collaboration in trade, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232585,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,2858,7722,257,254,7189],"class_list":["post-232584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-gaborone","tag-kagame","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visits"],"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\/232584","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=232584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}