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Monrovia \u2014 The government of Botswana has announced<\/a> the death of former President Festus Mogae at the age of 86. Serving as the nation’s third president since independence, Mogae was widely acclaimed for his commitment to good governance and his management of the diamond-rich country’s economy during his decade-long tenure.<\/p>\n “As a nation, we grieve the loss of a remarkable leader and servant of the people, whose commitment to Botswana remained unwavering throughout his life,” President Duma Boko <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Monrovia \u2014 The government of Botswana has announced the death of former President Festus Mogae at the age of 86. Serving as the nation’s third president since independence, Mogae was widely acclaimed for his commitment to good governance and his management of the diamond-rich country’s economy during his decade-long tenure. “As a nation, we grieve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681385:48f651f4fdd874e12b652bcd48b451d6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,6974,23469,9548,9061,257,2450,9732,254],"class_list":["post-232920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-death","tag-festus","tag-mogae","tag-mourns","tag-news","tag-president","tag-remarkable","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681385:48f651f4fdd874e12b652bcd48b451d6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232920","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=232920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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