{"id":175000,"date":"2024-06-22T01:16:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T23:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-mp-backs-call-for-state-of-emergency-to-end-famo-killings\/"},"modified":"2024-06-22T01:16:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T23:16:07","slug":"lesotho-mp-backs-call-for-state-of-emergency-to-end-famo-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-mp-backs-call-for-state-of-emergency-to-end-famo-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: MP Backs Call for State of Emergency to End Famo Killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\"><em>AllAfrica editor&#8217;s note: Famo is a Sesotho music genre of melodies created and sung with accordion. It has been famous in Lesotho and South Africa for years. Rivalry between Basotho fans of the genre has fuelled years of deadly gang warfare.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">THE government has been criticized for not doing enough to address increasing famo related murders across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The recent outlawing of <em>famo<\/em> groups was not enough to end their reign of terror across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Instead, the chairperson of the Social&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406170272.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AllAfrica editor&#8217;s note: Famo is a Sesotho music genre of melodies created and sung with accordion. It has been famous in Lesotho and South Africa for years. Rivalry between Basotho fans of the genre has fuelled years of deadly gang warfare. THE government has been criticized for not doing enough to address increasing famo related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00280885:9780a50c9cc8998dab8fc3a5bdf7abd7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,7102,6880,6990,14631,6612,4717,1407,257,254,6017],"class_list":["post-175000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-call","tag-emergency","tag-famo","tag-killings","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00280885:9780a50c9cc8998dab8fc3a5bdf7abd7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}