{"id":218634,"date":"2025-12-31T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-army-admits-teenagers-were-sexually-harassed\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:00:09","slug":"lesotho-army-admits-teenagers-were-sexually-harassed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-army-admits-teenagers-were-sexually-harassed\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Army Admits Teenagers Were Sexually Harassed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em> Opposition MP says there are more cases and calls for independent inquiry <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Lesotho Defence Force has admitted to two incidents of sexual harassment involving girls at its Mafeteng boot camp.<\/li>\n<li>The abuse occurred during medical transfers in a military ambulance by a soldier assigned as a caregiver.<\/li>\n<li>The army commander says the soldier has been detained and will be dismissed.<\/li>\n<li>The head of an opposition party says other girls have contacted him, saying they have been raped. He has called for an&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512310004.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>Opposition MP says there are more cases and calls for independent inquiry The Lesotho Defence Force has admitted to two incidents of sexual harassment involving girls at its Mafeteng boot camp. The abuse occurred during medical transfers in a military ambulance by a soldier assigned as a caregiver. The army commander says the soldier has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218635,"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":[7988,258,256,4361,6717,4717,1407,257,5098,254,18952],"class_list":["post-218634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-admits","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-army","tag-harassed","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-sexually","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teenagers"],"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\/218634","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=218634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}