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Cries of a nation overwhelmed
The Citizen (South Africa)
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July 31, 2025
South Africans are bearing the brunt of undocumented migration, overwhelmed services, and a government slow to respond. Poet Robert Frost in Mending Walls said that good fences make good neighbours. South Africa keeps finding itself in situations...
Supporting Menstrual Health and Hygiene to Improve Women and Girls’ Wellbeing
Informative
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July 23, 2025
By: Mpho Shelile MASERU Menstrual health and hygiene remain important yet overlooked aspects of the health and wellbeing of women and girls in many communities. In Lesotho and many other parts of the world, menstruation is still surrounded by...
Transforming Lesotho's Trade Environment
MENAFN
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July 21, 2025
(MENAFN- The Post) In a significant step toward modernising trade processes and improving the ease of doing business, the Government of Lesotho has made major progress in implementing the Lesotho National Single Window for Trade-a digital platform...
World News | MoS Margherita Lands in Lesotho, Aims to Strengthen Bilateral Ties
Latestly
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July 21, 2025
Maseru [Lesotho], July 21 (ANI): Minister of State for External Affairs Pabitra Margherita landed in Lesotho with an aim to strengthen bilateral relations. Margherita was welcomed by Thabang Lekhela, Principal Secretary for Foreign Affairs and...
Lesotho launches Voluntary National Review Report 2025–2030
Informative
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By: Mpho Shelile MASERU Lesotho has officially launched its Voluntary National Review (VNR) Report 2025–2030, marking a significant milestone in tracking the country’s progress towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals...
Lesotho’s push for sexual and reproductive health and rights
Informative
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July 16, 2025
…What the VNR 2025-2030 Says. Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) are key to ensuring that every person, especially women and girls, has the right to make decisions about their body, health, and future. In its 2025-2030 Voluntary...
Health Equity Matters add their voice to calls for global HIV funding
OUTinPerth
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July 16, 2025
The national federation for Australia’s leading HIV and LGBTIQA+ organisations has warned that global progress towards ending HIV transmission is at risk of being undone, following new UN estimates showing millions of deaths and new infections...
Kenya’s Christine Njoki is ready to defend her title at the Totalsports Women’s Race Durban
South Africa Today
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July 30, 2025
Kenya’s Christine Njoki will return to Durban this Sunday, 03 August 2025, as she sets her sights on defending her title at one of South Africa’s most iconic Women’s Month celebrations, the Totalsports Women’s Race. Christine Njoki made a...
‘God is still God’ — Remembering the lives lost in Lesotho bus accident
Deseret News - Utah
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July 20, 2025
MAPUTSOE, Lesotho — Nearly a month after the tragic bus accident that resulted in the deaths of 15 individuals — including 10 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints going to a youth activity — a memorial service provided peace...
Undernutrition Crisis: How Lesotho's Infants Are Falling Behind
Newswise
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July 18, 2025
Newswise — Undernutrition remains one of the leading threats to child health and development in low-income countries, with Sub-Saharan Africa bearing the brunt of this crisis. In Lesotho, childhood stunting rates have risen dramatically, now...
Bishop says U.S. aid cuts, not migrants, crippling South Africa’s health system
Catholic News Agency
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July 17, 2025
ACI Africa, Jul 17, 2025 / 14:28 pm Bishop Joseph Mary Kizito of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) said on July 15 that South Africa’s health sector has been brought to its knees not by foreign nationals, but by the recent...
Lesotho Declares National State of Disaster Over Soaring Unemployment
South Africa Today
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July 11, 2025
The government of Lesotho has declared a national state of disaster in response to skyrocketing unemployment, which currently stands at 30%. The announcement comes as the country grapples with severe economic fallout from rising U.S. tariffs and...
Catholic Bishop Links Woes of Migrants in South Africa’s Public Hospitals to U.S. President’s Aid Suspension
ACI Africa
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July 16, 2025
“I have seen HIV and TB projects here closing down,” the Bishop of South Africa’s Catholic Diocese of Aliwal said, and added, “A lot of Trump money for HIV and TB is no longer there. People are going to get shortage of medication. And now, they...
LCE embarks on comprehensive sexuality education
Informative
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July 30, 2025
By: ‘Moelo Motsiri MASERU Lesotho College of Education earlier this week launched the professional development initiative of Educating teachers about the comprehensive sexuality education at the school campus yesterday. The launch marks the...
Trump tariffs aim to destroy historic Lesotho in Africa
People's World
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July 15, 2025
Matumelo Manosa, center, works in a garment factory in Maseru, Lesotho, Feb. 24, 2022.| AP/Neo Ntsoma President Donald Trump, head of state of the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world, has taken aim at a small African country, which...
AP Business SummaryBrief at 2:25 p.m. EDT
Mankato Free Press - Minnesota
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Federal Reserve leaves interest rates unchanged even as Trump demands cuts WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is leaving its key short-term interest rate unchanged for the fifth time this year, brushing off repeated calls from President Donald...
Lesotho’s textile industry in disaster after Trump tariffs
The Globe and Mail
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July 9, 2025
Open this photo in gallery:Workers at the Nien Hsing Textile factory on the outskirts of Maseru, Lesotho. The country received 50 per cent tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump.Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters When Limpho Lefalatsa first learned she had...
Children raise their voices at 2025 National Children’s Parliament
Informative
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July 30, 2025
…“As youth, we are aware, awake, and ready to participate in shaping our nation” By: Mpho Shelile MASERU Children from across Lesotho gathered in Maseru this past week for the 2025 National Children’s Parliament, an inspiring event created to give...
UHC drives progress across all of the SDGs
UHC2030
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July 28, 2025
At the 2025 HLPF, world leaders and stakeholders came together to review progress on the 2030 Agenda and confront the intersecting crises of our time: poverty, inequality, climate emergencies, global instability and underfunded essential services....
Lesotho Hosts Badminton Development Programme
MENAFN
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July 7, 2025
(MENAFN- The Post) MASERU – In a major boost for grassroots sport in Lesotho, the Lesotho Badminton Federation (LESBAD), in partnership with the Danish Badminton Federation, has launched a ground-breaking international coaching and development...