{"id":242730,"date":"2026-08-31T08:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/rwanda-former-botswana-president-joins-kigali-residents-for-umuganda\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:37:24","slug":"rwanda-former-botswana-president-joins-kigali-residents-for-umuganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/rwanda-former-botswana-president-joins-kigali-residents-for-umuganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda: Former Botswana President Joins Kigali Residents for Umuganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The former President of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi, joined Kigali residents for the monthly community work on Saturday, August 29, in Gahanga, Kicukiro District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He praised Rwandan youth for joining elders in community work, saying their participation should inspire other young people across Africa to do the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><strong>Also read<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/35436\/news\/economy\/rwanda-botswana-sign-six-cooperation-deals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rwanda, Botswana sign six cooperation deals<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Masisi, who served as Botswana&#8217;s fifth president from 2018 to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608310005.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>The former President of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi, joined Kigali residents for the monthly community work on Saturday, August 29, in Gahanga, Kicukiro District. He praised Rwandan youth for joining elders in community work, saying their participation should inspire other young people across Africa to do the same. Also read: Rwanda, Botswana sign six cooperation deals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242731,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,5046,5441,257,2450,4288,4702,254,1516],"class_list":["post-242730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-joins","tag-kigali","tag-news","tag-president","tag-residents","tag-rwanda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-umuganda"],"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\/242730","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=242730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}