{"id":200602,"date":"2025-06-21T02:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T00:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-pm-declares-state-of-emergency\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T02:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T00:11:04","slug":"lesotho-pm-declares-state-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-pm-declares-state-of-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: PM Declares State of Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><em>&#8230;&#8217;The government sees unemployment as a crisis&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">PRIME Minister Sam Matekane has declared youth unemployment a state of emergency, expressing confidence that young people are ready to take on the challenge if properly supported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Speaking at the closure of yesterday&#8217;s National Youth Dialogue at &#8216;Manthabiseng Convention Centre, Premier Matekane said he was impressed by the youth&#8217;s willingness to propose solutions to the country&#8217;s unemployment crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Mr Matekane conceded that unemployment in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506190013.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>&#8230;&#8217;The government sees unemployment as a crisis&#8217; PRIME Minister Sam Matekane has declared youth unemployment a state of emergency, expressing confidence that young people are ready to take on the challenge if properly supported. Speaking at the closure of yesterday&#8217;s National Youth Dialogue at &#8216;Manthabiseng Convention Centre, Premier Matekane said he was impressed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200603,"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":[258,256,7030,6990,4717,1407,257,254,6017],"class_list":["post-200602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-declares","tag-emergency","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state"],"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\/200602","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=200602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}