{"id":249105,"date":"2026-11-05T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/nigeria-botswana-reaffirms-commitment-to-enhance-ties-with-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T05:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:00:15","slug":"nigeria-botswana-reaffirms-commitment-to-enhance-ties-with-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/nigeria-botswana-reaffirms-commitment-to-enhance-ties-with-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Botswana Reaffirms Commitment to Enhance Ties With Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Gaborone \u2014 Botswana has reaffirmed commitment to enhancing bilateral ties with Nigeria as well as advancing the African Agenda 2063.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Speaking at a reception to celebrate Nigeria&#8217;s 66th independence anniversary on October 30, Minister for International Relations, Dr Phenyo Butale said Botswana is dedicated to continue promoting democracy, peace and stability across the continent while expressing openness for further engagement on mutual interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Dr Butale said Botswana and Nigeria has endured&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611040083.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>Gaborone \u2014 Botswana has reaffirmed commitment to enhancing bilateral ties with Nigeria as well as advancing the African Agenda 2063. Speaking at a reception to celebrate Nigeria&#8217;s 66th independence anniversary on October 30, Minister for International Relations, Dr Phenyo Butale said Botswana is dedicated to continue promoting democracy, peace and stability across the continent while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":249106,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6307,10152,257,4687,8132,254,7051],"class_list":["post-249105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-commitment","tag-enhance","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-reaffirms","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ties"],"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\/249105","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=249105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}