{"id":192975,"date":"2025-03-06T18:49:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-elon-musk-is-trying-to-do-business-in-lesotho-the-country-donald-trump-says-nobody-has-ever-heard-of\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:49:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:49:44","slug":"lesotho-elon-musk-is-trying-to-do-business-in-lesotho-the-country-donald-trump-says-nobody-has-ever-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-elon-musk-is-trying-to-do-business-in-lesotho-the-country-donald-trump-says-nobody-has-ever-heard-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Elon Musk Is Trying to Do Business in Lesotho, the Country Donald Trump Says &#8216;Nobody Has Ever Heard Of&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em> And Starlink is not the only US company investing in the kingdom <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donald Trump told the US Congress on Tuesday that Lesotho is a country &#8220;nobody has ever heard of&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>But his colleague Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency, has applied for a licence there.<\/li>\n<li>The Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA) is currently consulting the public on whether Starlink Lesotho Pty Ltd should be granted a licence to operate.<\/li>\n<li>Lesotho&#8217;s Minister of Foreign Affairs Lejone Mpotjoane says he is&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503060377.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>And Starlink is not the only US company investing in the kingdom Donald Trump told the US Congress on Tuesday that Lesotho is a country &#8220;nobody has ever heard of&#8221;. But his colleague Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency, has applied for a licence there. The Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA) is currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":192976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661596:4f8a92ee37e77a0d5ac618bc1e51d836:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[4338,258,256,5042,9386,42444,9610,4717,1407,42445,257,254,6264],"class_list":["post-192975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-country","tag-donald","tag-elon","tag-heard","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-musk","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661596:4f8a92ee37e77a0d5ac618bc1e51d836:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192975","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=192975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}