{"id":46200,"date":"2020-04-01T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/coronavirus-botswana-presidents-address-to-the-nation\/"},"modified":"2020-04-01T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:30:09","slug":"coronavirus-botswana-presidents-address-to-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/coronavirus-botswana-presidents-address-to-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus &#8211; Botswana: President&#039;s Address to the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/a913f730c8920d4.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/a913f730c8920d4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As per my national address earlier this morning, I have declared a state of emergency in our country in order to combat the COVID-19 virus pandemic. Our constitution empowers a sitting President to declare a statement of emergency in the interest of public order,<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The President, Republic of Botswana.<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/coronavirus-botswana-presidents-address-to-the-nation?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/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>Download logo As per my national address earlier this morning, I have declared a state of emergency in our country in order to combat the COVID-19 virus pandemic. Our constitution empowers a sitting President to declare a statement of emergency in the interest of public order, Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The President, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[7325,258,256,4718,2462,32489,10970,257,33460,254],"class_list":["post-46200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-address","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-nation","tag-news","tag-president039s","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46200","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=46200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}