{"id":202408,"date":"2025-07-14T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-declares-state-of-disaster-as-it-struggles-with-us-policy-changes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:00:56","slug":"lesotho-declares-state-of-disaster-as-it-struggles-with-us-policy-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-declares-state-of-disaster-as-it-struggles-with-us-policy-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Declares &#8216;State of Disaster&#8217; As It Struggles With Us Policy Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\"><em> Lesotho&#8217;s reliance on the United States has left the country on the brink of disaster following the Trump administration&#8217;s decision to cut off aid. Its manufacturing sector too is under threat, thanks to uncertainty around the renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/lesotho\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Lesotho<\/a> has declared a national state of disaster for the next two years, amid the fallout from tariffs and aid cuts imposed by the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">With unemployment already around 30 percent, the government is warning of an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507140140.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>Lesotho&#8217;s reliance on the United States has left the country on the brink of disaster following the Trump administration&#8217;s decision to cut off aid. Its manufacturing sector too is under threat, thanks to uncertainty around the renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act. Lesotho has declared a national state of disaster for the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202409,"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":[258,256,7030,8985,4717,1407,257,6470,254,6017,12928],"class_list":["post-202408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-declares","tag-disaster","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-struggles"],"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\/202408","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=202408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}