Lesotho declares unemployment a national disaster
Lesotho’s unemployment rate has risen to 30%, up from 22.5% in 2019. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi By Sechaba Mokhethi Lesotho... Read more
11 Jul, 2025
Mass lay-offs at Lesotho garment factories as US tariffs bite
The future of garment factories in Thetsane industrial area in Maseru hangs in the balance as the United States... Read more
14 Jun, 2025
Lesotho’s health system has been decimated by US funding cuts
The Ministry of Health’s headquarters in Maseru, Lesotho. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi By Sechaba Mokhethi Despite previous assurances by Lesotho’s... Read more
2 Jun, 2025
Big US-funded chicken project shuts down in Lesotho
A major US-funded project aimed at boosting Lesotho’s chicken farming industry has been canned. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi By Sechaba... Read more
28 May, 2025
Lesotho grants licence to Musk’s Starlink
Maseru – Lesotho on Monday granted a licence to tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service, hours after... Read more
15 Apr, 2025
Agoa in limbo: 90-day pause won’t save SA cars & Lesotho jeans
Johannesburg – Washington’s 90-day pause on higher tariffs is of little comfort to southern African economies facing the collapse... Read more
12 Apr, 2025
Lesotho under pressure to approve Starlink licence
Batch of Starlink test satellites stacked atop a Falcon 9 rocket. Photo: Official SpaceX photos via Wikimedia (public domain) By Sechaba... Read more
10 Apr, 2025
Prince Harry resigns from Africa charity after ‘devastating’ row
London – Prince Harry said he had quit as patron of a charity he founded in southern Africa almost 20... Read more
28 Mar, 2025
Lesotho fears Trump shake-up could tear threadbare economy
Maseru – In a sweltering factory in Lesotho, rows of workers hunch over thrumming sewing machines churning out piles... Read more
27 Mar, 2025
The ‘biggest trout farm in Africa’ and the failed R5,000 community fund
The Katse Dam in the Lesotho Highlands, where SanLei Trout has its farm. Photos: Sechaba Mokhethi By Sechaba Mokhethi... Read more
14 Mar, 2025
