{"id":30081,"date":"2023-07-12T18:23:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana"},"modified":"2023-07-12T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T18:47:08","slug":"prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana","title":{"rendered":"PRIME MINISTER JOINS POLITICAL LEADERS IN BOTSWANA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span><b>Best known for its lucrative diamond mines and spectacular Kalahari safaris, Botswana will briefly take on a new role as the African hub for US investment on the continent this week.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>More than 1,000 African and American business leaders and government officials are expected to descend on the landlocked nation of fewer than three million people from July 11-4 for this year\u2019s US-Africa Business Summit.<\/p>\n<p>His Excellency Prime Minister, Cleopas Sipho Dlamini, left the country for Botswana yesterday afternoon where he will represent His Majesty King Mswati III and the Nation at the 15th U.S-Africa Business Summit of the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA).<\/p>\n<p>This information was revealed by Government Spokesperson Alpheous Nxumalo, yesterday through a public statement posted on their social media platforms mainly Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The Summit, which began yesterday ,and ends on Friday, 14 July2023, is being held at the Royal Aria in Gaborone, Botswana, under the theme: \u201cEnhancing Africa\u2019s Value in Global Value Chains.<\/p>\n<p>Dlamini is expected to headline a High-level Dialogue on Enhancing Africa\u2019s Value in Digital and Cyber Services Value Chains and a Roundtable on ICT \u2013 Challenges and Opportunities for the Digitalization Agenda, to be held later today.<\/p>\n<p>The Summit will bring together more than 1,000 U.S. and African private sector executives, international investors, senior government and multilateral stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>Their objective is to enable connectivity with government and private sector decision makers over the course of four days and to deliver the insights that business owners need to move their organisation forward.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, For Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi, the summit is an opportunity to unravel potential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a unique opportunity to highlight Botswana\u2019s as well as Africa\u2019s unparalleled potential to advance trade and investment to the benefit of the people of Africa and the US,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\">Eswatini<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eswatini. Best known for its lucrative diamond mines and spectacular Kalahari safaris, Botswana will briefly take on a new role as the African hub for US investment on the continent this week. More than 1,000 African and American business leaders and government officials are expected to descend on the landlocked nation of fewer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":30079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12,242],"tags":[234,248,249],"class_list":["post-30081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-eswatini","tag-eswatini"],"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>PRIME MINISTER JOINS POLITICAL LEADERS IN BOTSWANA - Eswatini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Best known for its lucrative diamond mines and spectacular Kalahari safaris, Botswana will briefly take on a new role ...\" \/>\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\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PRIME MINISTER JOINS POLITICAL LEADERS IN BOTSWANA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Best known for its lucrative diamond mines and spectacular Kalahari safaris, Botswana will briefly take on a new role ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eswatini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-12T18:23:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-12T18:47:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/07\/sm_1689171344.141321.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"PRIME MINISTER JOINS POLITICAL LEADERS IN BOTSWANA\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-12T18:23:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-12T18:47:08+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana\"},\"wordCount\":316,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/07\/sm_1689171344.141321.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Eswatini\",\"Eswatini\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana\",\"name\":\"PRIME MINISTER JOINS POLITICAL LEADERS IN BOTSWANA - Eswatini\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/07\/sm_1689171344.141321.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-12T18:23:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-12T18:47:08+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Best known for its lucrative diamond mines and spectacular Kalahari safaris, Botswana will briefly take on a new role ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/07\/sm_1689171344.141321.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/07\/sm_1689171344.141321.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"PRIME MINISTER JOINS POLITICAL LEADERS IN BOTSWANA\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"PRIME MINISTER JOINS POLITICAL LEADERS IN BOTSWANA\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/\",\"name\":\"Eswatini\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"PRIME MINISTER JOINS POLITICAL LEADERS IN BOTSWANA - Eswatini","description":"Best known for its lucrative diamond mines and spectacular Kalahari safaris, Botswana will briefly take on a new role ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"PRIME MINISTER JOINS POLITICAL LEADERS IN BOTSWANA","og_description":"Best known for its lucrative diamond mines and spectacular Kalahari safaris, Botswana will briefly take on a new role ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana","og_site_name":"Eswatini","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-07-12T18:23:42+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-07-12T18:47:08+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/07\/sm_1689171344.141321.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"PRIME MINISTER JOINS POLITICAL LEADERS IN BOTSWANA","datePublished":"2023-07-12T18:23:42+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-12T18:47:08+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana"},"wordCount":316,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/07\/sm_1689171344.141321.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Eswatini","Eswatini"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","policy","to-homepage"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana","name":"PRIME MINISTER JOINS POLITICAL LEADERS IN BOTSWANA - Eswatini","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/07\/sm_1689171344.141321.jpg","datePublished":"2023-07-12T18:23:42+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-12T18:47:08+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Best known for its lucrative diamond mines and spectacular Kalahari safaris, Botswana will briefly take on a new role ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/07\/sm_1689171344.141321.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/sites\/33\/2023\/07\/sm_1689171344.141321.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"caption":"PRIME MINISTER JOINS POLITICAL LEADERS IN BOTSWANA"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/all-news\/prime-minister-joins-political-leaders-in-botswana#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"PRIME MINISTER JOINS POLITICAL LEADERS IN BOTSWANA"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/","name":"Eswatini","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eswatini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}