{"id":208086,"date":"2025-09-24T19:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-govt-begs-for-agoa-renewal\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:07:53","slug":"lesotho-govt-begs-for-agoa-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-govt-begs-for-agoa-renewal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Govt Begs for AGOA Renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><em>&#8230; sends delegation to the US<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><strong>T<\/strong>HE government has dispatched a delegation of ministers to the United States (US) to nudge the Trump administration to renew the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which is set to expire at the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The delegation includes the Minister of Trade, Industry and Business Development, Mokhethi Shelile; the Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Ret\u0161elisitsoe Matlanyane; and the Minister of Labour and Employment, T\u0161eliso Mokhosi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">The trio left&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509240059.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; sends delegation to the US THE government has dispatched a delegation of ministers to the United States (US) to nudge the Trump administration to renew the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which is set to expire at the end of this month. The delegation includes the Minister of Trade, Industry and Business Development, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208087,"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\/00670056:29abf7630aca0546223b924546da216d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6245,9070,4357,4717,1407,257,9097,254],"class_list":["post-208086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agoa","tag-begs","tag-govt","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-renewal","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670056:29abf7630aca0546223b924546da216d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208086","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=208086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}