{"id":207895,"date":"2025-09-22T19:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-villagers-lodge-complaint-with-african-development-bank-against-lesotho-highlands-water-project\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T19:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:03:23","slug":"lesotho-villagers-lodge-complaint-with-african-development-bank-against-lesotho-highlands-water-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-villagers-lodge-complaint-with-african-development-bank-against-lesotho-highlands-water-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Villagers Lodge Complaint With African Development Bank Against Lesotho Highlands Water Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em> Grievances listed include unsatisfactory relocations, damaged homes, a lack of compensation and loss of livelihoods caused by the project <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eighteen rural communities in Lesotho have filed a complaint with the African Development Bank over the implementation of Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.<\/li>\n<li>Villagers allege a decade of broken promises, unsatisfactory relocations, a loss of natural resources, farm land and habitat, damage from blasting, and other harms.<\/li>\n<li>The Lesotho Highlands&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509220102.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>Grievances listed include unsatisfactory relocations, damaged homes, a lack of compensation and loss of livelihoods caused by the project Eighteen rural communities in Lesotho have filed a complaint with the African Development Bank over the implementation of Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. Villagers allege a decade of broken promises, unsatisfactory relocations, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207896,"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":[258,256,4380,7089,8389,5989,11327,4717,1407,18172,257,6504,254,8542,6722],"class_list":["post-207895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-bank","tag-complaint","tag-development","tag-highlands","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lodge","tag-news","tag-project","tag-south-africa-today","tag-villagers","tag-water"],"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\/207895","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=207895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}