{"id":709,"date":"2026-05-12T14:39:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2026-05-12T14:39:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:39:46","slug":"our-democracy-has-passed-all-the-tests-now-says-botswanas-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Our democracy has passed all the tests now,&#8217; says Botswana&#8217;s president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRANCE 24 spoke to Botswana&#8217;s President Duma Gideon Boko, on the\u00a0sidelines\u00a0of the\u00a0Africa Forward summit in Nairobi, Kenya. Boko,\u00a0a Harvard-educated\u00a0human rights\u00a0lawyer, was elected in October 2024, ending the former governing party&#8217;s six-decade rule.\u00a0&#8220;Over the years, the opposition gained a lot of momentum,&#8221; Boko recalled. &#8220;In 2024, it was clear that the message we were taking to the people was finding fertile ground&#8221;. According to him, Botswana&#8217;s democracy &#8220;has passed all the tests now&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRANCE 24 spoke to Botswana&#8217;s President Duma Gideon Boko, on the\u00a0sidelines\u00a0of the\u00a0Africa Forward summit in Nairobi, Kenya. Boko,\u00a0a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}