{"id":11051,"date":"2022-07-29T16:06:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/head-of-state-expresses-desire-to-strengthen-political-dialogue"},"modified":"2022-07-29T17:07:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T17:07:56","slug":"head-of-state-expresses-desire-to-strengthen-political-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/head-of-state-expresses-desire-to-strengthen-political-dialogue","title":{"rendered":"Head of State expresses desire to strengthen political dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Just yesterday, Minister T\u00e9te Ant\u00f3nio went on an official visit to Gaborone, Botswana, as a special envoy of the President of the Republic Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o.<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\nWithout going into details about the objectives of his visit to the country, the note states that the head of Angolan diplomacy is accompanied by the director for Africa, the Middle East and Regional Organizations of MIREX and the ambassador of Angola in Ethiopia to the African Union and the United Nations Commission for Africa, Francisco da Cruz, and senior officials of the institution.<\/p>\n<p>Political-diplomatic relations between Angola and Botswana date back to February 1976. In February 2006, the two countries signed a General Cooperation Agreement. Like Angola, Botswana is a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) which comprises 16 regional members.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries are part of the Okavango\/Zambezi project, shared equally by Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia, covering a total of 278,000 square kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>The Okavango Basin is rich in biodiversity, with more than 400 species of birds and 100 mammals, among other animals, Angola has the second largest portion of the project with 87,000 square kilometers, behind Zambia, which provided 97,000 square kilometers of land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. Just yesterday, Minister T\u00e9te Ant\u00f3nio went on an official visit to Gaborone, Botswana, as a special envoy of the President of the Republic Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o. Without going into details about the objectives of his visit to the country, the note states that the head of Angolan diplomacy is accompanied by the director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12,16],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-11051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Head of State expresses desire to strengthen political dialogue - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Just yesterday, Minister T\u00e9te Ant\u00f3nio went on an official visit to Gaborone, Botswana, as a special envoy of the Pres ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/head-of-state-expresses-desire-to-strengthen-political-dialogue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Head of State expresses desire to strengthen political dialogue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Just yesterday, Minister T\u00e9te Ant\u00f3nio went on an official visit to Gaborone, Botswana, as a special envoy of the Pres ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/head-of-state-expresses-desire-to-strengthen-political-dialogue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-29T16:06:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-29T17:07:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_26-62e413c21f1f0.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"796\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"652\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/head-of-state-expresses-desire-to-strengthen-political-dialogue#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/head-of-state-expresses-desire-to-strengthen-political-dialogue\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Head of State expresses desire to strengthen political dialogue\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-29T16:06:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-29T17:07:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/head-of-state-expresses-desire-to-strengthen-political-dialogue\"},\"wordCount\":212,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/head-of-state-expresses-desire-to-strengthen-political-dialogue#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_26-62e413c21f1f0.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/head-of-state-expresses-desire-to-strengthen-political-dialogue#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/head-of-state-expresses-desire-to-strengthen-political-dialogue\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/head-of-state-expresses-desire-to-strengthen-political-dialogue\",\"name\":\"Head of State expresses desire to strengthen political dialogue - 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