{"id":205052,"date":"2020-02-18T22:10:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/botswana-awaits-results-in-close-election\/"},"modified":"2020-02-18T22:10:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:10:19","slug":"botswana-awaits-results-in-close-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/botswana-awaits-results-in-close-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana awaits results in close election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MXVkcN3qPQ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>*Botswana voted on Wednesday in a cliffhanger election set to test the decades-long dominance of the ruling party and challenge the country&#8217;s image of stability.*<\/p>\n<p>The southern African nation&#8217;s 2 200 polling stations started closing at 17:00 GMT as many were still waiting in queues to cast their ballots in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) spokesperson Osupile Maroba this would delay counting slightly.<\/p>\n<p>Results are expected as early as Thursday evening. According to the IEC, t\u2026<br \/>\nREAD MORE : <\/p>\n<p>Africanews on YouTube brings you a daily dose of news, produced and realised in Africa, by and for Africans.<br \/>\nAfricanews is the first pan-African multilingual media outlet, unique in its concept and vision.<br \/>\nSubscribe on our Youtube channel  and receive all the latest news from the continent.<\/p>\n<p>Africanews is available in English and French.<br \/>\nWebsite : www.africanews.com<br \/>\nFacebook :<br \/>\nTwitter :<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MXVkcN3qPQ0\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Botswana voted on Wednesday in a cliffhanger election set to test the decades-long dominance of the ruling party and challenge the country&#8217;s image of stability.* The southern African nation&#8217;s 2 200 polling stations started closing at 17:00 GMT as many were still waiting in queues to cast their ballots in the evening. Independent Electoral Commission &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[102830,102828,102829,130592,100967,93117],"class_list":["post-205052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tie-life-style","tag-africa-elections","tag-africanews","tag-af_news","tag-botswana","tag-election-results-in-nigeria-2019","tag-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}