{"id":196111,"date":"2025-04-15T23:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-gives-in-approves-starlink-licence\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T23:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:16:45","slug":"lesotho-gives-in-approves-starlink-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-gives-in-approves-starlink-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Gives in, Approves Starlink Licence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em> Civic organisation says this is a &#8220;sell-out&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Lesotho Communications Authority has approved Starlink&#8217;s application to provide satellite internet services.<\/li>\n<li>The announcement comes in the middle of uncertainty about the tariffs to be imposed on the country by US President Donald Trump.<\/li>\n<li>Civic organisation Section Two says this is a &#8220;sell-out&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Lesotho has succumbed to pressure and granted a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/groundup.org.za\/article\/lesotho-under-pressure-to-approve-starlink-licence\/\" rel=\"noopener\">ten-year licence<\/a> to Starlink Lesotho, a subsidiary of Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX, to operate a satellite internet&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504150179.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>Civic organisation says this is a &#8220;sell-out&#8221; The Lesotho Communications Authority has approved Starlink&#8217;s application to provide satellite internet services. The announcement comes in the middle of uncertainty about the tariffs to be imposed on the country by US President Donald Trump. Civic organisation Section Two says this is a &#8220;sell-out&#8221;. Lesotho has succumbed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":196112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621662:0677e723e1511aac37e569233b7ed8f4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,8326,4717,1407,12476,257,254,42446],"class_list":["post-196111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approves","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-licence","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starlink"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621662:0677e723e1511aac37e569233b7ed8f4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196111","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=196111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}