{"id":212824,"date":"2025-11-07T08:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-king-letsie-iii-reaffirms-lesothos-commitment-to-social-development\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:46:28","slug":"lesotho-king-letsie-iii-reaffirms-lesothos-commitment-to-social-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-king-letsie-iii-reaffirms-lesothos-commitment-to-social-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: King Letsie III Reaffirms Lesotho&#8217;s Commitment to Social Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Lesotho has renewed its unwavering commitment to advancing social protection, poverty reduction, and inclusive growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Addressing the Second World Summit for Social Development Session in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday this week, His Majesty King Letsie III reaffirmed Lesotho&#8217;s dedication to the Copenhagen Declaration, which continues to guide the country&#8217;s development vision through the extended National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) II.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">The summit, which began on Tuesday, ends today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511060053.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 has renewed its unwavering commitment to advancing social protection, poverty reduction, and inclusive growth. Addressing the Second World Summit for Social Development Session in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday this week, His Majesty King Letsie III reaffirmed Lesotho&#8217;s dedication to the Copenhagen Declaration, which continues to guide the country&#8217;s development vision through the extended National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":212825,"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":[258,256,6307,5989,9002,8946,4717,1407,9990,9283,257,8132,3577,254],"class_list":["post-212824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commitment","tag-development","tag-iii","tag-king","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","tag-letsie","tag-news","tag-reaffirms","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/212824","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=212824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}