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A COALITION of youth organizations and political party youth leagues is urging the government to declare youth unemployment a national emergency, citing the alarming 38 percent unemployment rate among young Basotho.<\/p>\n
The groups announced plans to petition Prime Minister Sam Matekane over the unemployment crisis during a press conference in Maseru this week.<\/p>\n
They said youth in Lesotho were drowning in poverty and despair while those in power “enjoyed privileges and paycheques” at the expense of the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> A COALITION of youth organizations and political party youth leagues is urging the government to declare youth unemployment a national emergency, citing the alarming 38 percent unemployment rate among young Basotho. The groups announced plans to petition Prime Minister Sam Matekane over the unemployment crisis during a press conference in Maseru this week. They said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,12877,6990,22465,4717,1407,257,254,7278,4749,6276],"class_list":["post-197140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-declare","tag-emergency","tag-gvt","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-told","tag-unemployment","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/197140","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=197140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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