Lesotho: Trump’s Tariffs Have Destroyed the Livelihoods of Thousands of Women in Lesotho’s Textile Industry

Unable to pay rent, thousands have returned to their villages, whose subsistence farming-based economy cannot sustain their families. Desperate, many have taken the dangerous road across the border to the illegal mining enterprises in South Africa.

US President Donald Trump has wrecked the livelihoods of thousands of women working in Lesotho’s textile sector by spooking the small land-locked southern African kingdom with 50% tariffs – the highest imposed on any nation – before dropping it to 15%…