{"id":203888,"date":"2025-08-03T15:41:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/africa-lesotho-gears-up-for-africa-cultural-and-trade-expo\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T15:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T13:41:56","slug":"africa-lesotho-gears-up-for-africa-cultural-and-trade-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/africa-lesotho-gears-up-for-africa-cultural-and-trade-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Lesotho Gears Up for Africa Cultural and Trade Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">LESOTHO is set to become the epicenter of African culture and commerce this September as it prepares to host the inaugural &#8216;Africa Cultural Exchange and Trade Expo&#8217; from 3 to 7 September 2025 in Maseru.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The event, which promises to be a milestone in fostering continental unity, was officially unveiled during a recent press conference led by the Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation (LTDC) Head of Strategic Marketing, Phomolo Lebotsa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Organised through a strategic partnership between M Legacy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010278.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 is set to become the epicenter of African culture and commerce this September as it prepares to host the inaugural &#8216;Africa Cultural Exchange and Trade Expo&#8217; from 3 to 7 September 2025 in Maseru. The event, which promises to be a milestone in fostering continental unity, was officially unveiled during a recent press conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203889,"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":[258,256,9671,16102,14065,4717,1407,257,254,5979],"class_list":["post-203888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cultural","tag-expo","tag-gears","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade"],"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\/203888","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=203888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}