{"id":197345,"date":"2025-05-03T23:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T21:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-u-s-shuts-down-massive-lesotho-development-project\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T23:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T21:56:54","slug":"lesotho-u-s-shuts-down-massive-lesotho-development-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-u-s-shuts-down-massive-lesotho-development-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: U.S. Shuts Down Massive Lesotho Development Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em> R6-billion American-funded Millennium Challenge Account is on the verge of collapse <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The United States has moved to shut down an American-funded R6-billion development project in Lesotho.<\/li>\n<li>The Lesotho government has not confirmed the closure of the Lesotho Health and Horticulture Compact, but leaked internal emails to staff and contractors show the project is to be closed.<\/li>\n<li>Launched last year, the Lesotho Health and Horticulture Compact was to benefit approximately 2.5 million people over the next&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505010019.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>R6-billion American-funded Millennium Challenge Account is on the verge of collapse The United States has moved to shut down an American-funded R6-billion development project in Lesotho. The Lesotho government has not confirmed the closure of the Lesotho Health and Horticulture Compact, but leaked internal emails to staff and contractors show the project is to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197346,"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\/00250247:d3c0372a5ad2e2bc95446bef5606ebde:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,5989,4717,1407,6958,257,6504,5223,254,2282],"class_list":["post-197345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-development","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-massive","tag-news","tag-project","tag-shuts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00250247:d3c0372a5ad2e2bc95446bef5606ebde:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197345","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=197345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}