{"id":185382,"date":"2024-11-27T00:51:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T22:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-basotho-favour-open-trade-neutrality-in-war-greater-african-voice-in-international-affairs\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T00:51:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T22:51:05","slug":"lesotho-basotho-favour-open-trade-neutrality-in-war-greater-african-voice-in-international-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-basotho-favour-open-trade-neutrality-in-war-greater-african-voice-in-international-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Basotho Favour Open Trade, Neutrality in War, Greater African Voice in International Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Growing share of citizens see China&#8217;s influence as substantial and positive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basotho are more satisfied than dissatisfied with the way that SADC and the AU recognise Lesotho&#8217;s needs and interests in their decision making. o But more than two-thirds (68%) say African countries should have a greater say in international decision-making bodies like the United Nations.<\/li>\n<li>About seven in 10 citizens (69%) prefer free trade over limiting international trade to protect domestic producers. o A&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411260251.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>Growing share of citizens see China&#8217;s influence as substantial and positive. Key findings Basotho are more satisfied than dissatisfied with the way that SADC and the AU recognise Lesotho&#8217;s needs and interests in their decision making. o But more than two-thirds (68%) say African countries should have a greater say in international decision-making bodies like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185383,"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":[6117,258,256,4380,18241,24897,9486,4337,4717,1407,28501,257,5983,254,5979,10858,6618],"class_list":["post-185382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-affairs","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-basotho","tag-favour","tag-greater","tag-international","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-neutrality","tag-news","tag-open","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade","tag-voice","tag-war"],"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\/185382","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=185382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}