{"id":178627,"date":"2024-08-16T03:20:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-king-meets-fao-dg-over-lesothos-devastating-food-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T03:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T01:20:37","slug":"lesotho-king-meets-fao-dg-over-lesothos-devastating-food-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-king-meets-fao-dg-over-lesothos-devastating-food-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: King Meets FAO DG Over Lesotho&#8217;s Devastating Food Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">KING Letsie III recently met with FAO Director General Qu Dongyu, at the Matsieng Royal Palace in Maseru, where they discussed among others, Lesotho&#8217;s devasting food insecurity crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">In welcoming Dr Dongyu, His Majesty expressed gratitude for having accepted the invitation to visit Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The King described the Dr Dongyu&#8217;s visit as historic for Lesotho, as it was taking place at a time when the country was facing immense food security challenges due to an <em>El Nino<\/em> induced drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The King&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408150058.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>KING Letsie III recently met with FAO Director General Qu Dongyu, at the Matsieng Royal Palace in Maseru, where they discussed among others, Lesotho&#8217;s devasting food insecurity crisis. In welcoming Dr Dongyu, His Majesty expressed gratitude for having accepted the invitation to visit Lesotho. The King described the Dr Dongyu&#8217;s visit as historic for Lesotho, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,3723,5095,6001,5074,8946,4717,1407,9990,6271,257,254],"class_list":["post-178627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-devastating","tag-fao","tag-food","tag-king","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","tag-meets","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178627","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=178627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}