{"id":34170,"date":"2026-05-11T07:33:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34170"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:33:35","slug":"botswana-extends-mourning-period-for-president-mogae","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/botswana-extends-mourning-period-for-president-mogae\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana extends mourning period for President Mogae"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The Botswana government says the national period of mourning in honour of former President Festus Mogae, will continue until May 16.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">During the mourning period, national flags will continue to fly at half-mast at all government buildings, ministries, diplomatic missions and public institutions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mogae was the third President of Botswana.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mogae\u00a0was widely acclaimed for his commitment to good governance and his management of the diamond-rich nation&#8217;s economy during his decade-long tenure.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He died on Friday at the age of 86.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32599,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-34170","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Botswana mourns in honour of former President Festus Mogae","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34171,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34170\/revisions\/34171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}