{"id":42645,"date":"2025-09-26T19:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=42645"},"modified":"2025-09-27T19:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:07:14","slug":"botswana-launches-citizenship-program-to-boost-economy-beyond-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/botswana-launches-citizenship-program-to-boost-economy-beyond-diamonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana launches citizenship program to boost economy beyond diamonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Sept 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Botswana President Duma Boko said on Friday his country will establish a citizenship-by-investment program, as the southern African country looks to diversify its economy away from its largest export, diamonds.<\/p>\n<p>Botswana&#8217;s budget has been constrained this year due to a prolonged downturn in the global diamond market. It is the world&#8217;s leading producer of diamonds by value.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/botswana-launches-citizenship-program-boost-economy-beyond-diamonds-2025-09-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/botswana-launches-citizenship-program-boost-economy-beyond-diamonds-2025-09-26\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, Sept 26 (Reuters) &#8211; Botswana President Duma Boko said on Friday his country will establish a citizenship-by-investment program, as the southern African country looks to diversify its economy away from its largest export, diamonds. Botswana&#8217;s budget has been constrained this year due to a prolonged downturn in the global diamond market. It is [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-botswana","type-news-articles","item-year-698","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42646,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42645\/revisions\/42646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}