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…as 700,000 Basotho face extreme hunger<\/em><\/p>\n PRIME Minister Sam Matekane has declared a national food insecurity disaster spanning eight months from July 2024 to March 2025.<\/p>\n According to Mr Matekane, it is estimated that no less than 700 000 Basotho face extreme hunger because of the severe El Nino <\/em>drought, that has affected not only Lesotho’s agricultural sector but the rest of Southern African regional countries.<\/em><\/p>\n The number of Basotho facing hunger for the next eight months, is a significant…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> …as 700,000 Basotho face extreme hunger PRIME Minister Sam Matekane has declared a national food insecurity disaster spanning eight months from July 2024 to March 2025. According to Mr Matekane, it is estimated that no less than 700 000 Basotho face extreme hunger because of the severe El Nino drought, that has affected not only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177105,"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":[258,256,7030,8985,5074,2134,4717,1407,6687,257,254],"class_list":["post-177104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-declares","tag-disaster","tag-food","tag-insecurity","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/177104","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=177104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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