{"id":183364,"date":"2024-10-26T18:09:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-india-key-to-lesothos-economic-growth-govt\/"},"modified":"2024-10-26T18:09:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T16:09:49","slug":"lesotho-india-key-to-lesothos-economic-growth-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-india-key-to-lesothos-economic-growth-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: India Key to Lesotho&#8217;s Economic Growth &#8211; Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The government has praised India as a crucial partner, significantly contributing to Lesotho&#8217;s economic progress and development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Minister of Tourism, Sports, Arts, and Culture, Motlatsi Maqelepo, said this during the annual India Day cultural and food festival held over the weekend at the &#8216;Manthabiseng Convention Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">This year&#8217;s festival was particularly significant, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Basotho nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">It allowed both cultures to come together in a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410250313.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>The government has praised India as a crucial partner, significantly contributing to Lesotho&#8217;s economic progress and development. The Minister of Tourism, Sports, Arts, and Culture, Motlatsi Maqelepo, said this during the annual India Day cultural and food festival held over the weekend at the &#8216;Manthabiseng Convention Centre. This year&#8217;s festival was particularly significant, coinciding with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183365,"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":[258,256,3576,4357,6641,7447,7274,4717,1407,9990,257,254],"class_list":["post-183364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-economic","tag-growth","tag-india","tag-key","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","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\/183364","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=183364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}