{"id":249330,"date":"2026-11-07T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T11:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-records-sharp-rise-in-malaria-cases\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T11:30:11","slug":"botswana-records-sharp-rise-in-malaria-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-records-sharp-rise-in-malaria-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Records Sharp Rise in Malaria Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Gaborone \u2014 President Advocate Duma Boko has raised concern over the resurgence of malaria in Botswana, revealing that cases increased from 290 in 2024 to 2 451 in 2025, while deaths rose from two to 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">President Boko, who is chairperson of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), was speaking at the High-Level Dialogue on Malaria Elimination in Gaborone on November 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">He said the increase was a reminder that malaria could return rapidly when prevention, surveillance and response measures&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611060087.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 President Advocate Duma Boko has raised concern over the resurgence of malaria in Botswana, revealing that cases increased from 290 in 2024 to 2 451 in 2025, while deaths rose from two to 16. President Boko, who is chairperson of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), was speaking at the High-Level Dialogue on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":249331,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,10498,7993,257,6850,10256,15030,254],"class_list":["post-249330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-cases","tag-malaria","tag-news","tag-records","tag-rise","tag-sharp","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/249330","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=249330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}