{"id":199691,"date":"2025-06-07T01:40:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-u-s-cuts-food-aid-to-36000-children-in-lesotho\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T01:40:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:40:49","slug":"lesotho-u-s-cuts-food-aid-to-36000-children-in-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-u-s-cuts-food-aid-to-36000-children-in-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: U.S. Cuts Food Aid to 36,000 Children in Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em> About one in five people in rural Lesotho face food insecurity <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A programme designed to feed more than 36,000 learners at 200 schools in Lesotho will now end after abrupt cuts by the US Department of Agriculture.<\/li>\n<li>The Lesotho government says it&#8217;s own food programme will now cover these schools. But the government&#8217;s food programme does not have a good track record.<\/li>\n<li>Dozens of small-scale farmers who expanded their production to supply the US-funded programme are facing big losses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">It is 8:23am in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506060080.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>About one in five people in rural Lesotho face food insecurity A programme designed to feed more than 36,000 learners at 200 schools in Lesotho will now end after abrupt cuts by the US Department of Agriculture. The Lesotho government says it&#8217;s own food programme will now cover these schools. But the government&#8217;s food programme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199692,"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\/00661340:7d849479f108bedf677d9043e8418a97:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,7828,7371,7210,5074,4717,1407,257,254,2282],"class_list":["post-199691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-children","tag-cuts","tag-food","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661340:7d849479f108bedf677d9043e8418a97:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199691","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=199691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}