{"id":234862,"date":"2026-05-30T05:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T03:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-world-bank-group-helps-lesotho-to-expand-energy-access-and-economic-opportunity-for-nearly-147000-people\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T03:04:54","slug":"lesotho-world-bank-group-helps-lesotho-to-expand-energy-access-and-economic-opportunity-for-nearly-147000-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-world-bank-group-helps-lesotho-to-expand-energy-access-and-economic-opportunity-for-nearly-147000-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: World Bank Group Helps Lesotho to Expand Energy Access and Economic Opportunity for Nearly 147,000 People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Maseru \u2014 The World Bank Group is helping Lesotho bring reliable, affordable electricity to nearly 147,000 residents and businesses, reduce energy poverty, and create the conditions for stronger household incomes and private sector growth through a $50 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.worldbank.org\/en\/projects-operations\/project-detail\/P513939\" rel=\"noopener\">Accelerating Sustainable and Clean Energy Access Transformation in Lesotho (ASCENT &#8211; Lesotho)<\/a> project will deploy an integrated approach to electrification focusing on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605290057.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>Maseru \u2014 The World Bank Group is helping Lesotho bring reliable, affordable electricity to nearly 147,000 residents and businesses, reduce energy poverty, and create the conditions for stronger household incomes and private sector growth through a $50 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA). The Accelerating Sustainable and Clean Energy Access Transformation in Lesotho [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234863,"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":[6450,258,256,7089,3576,7424,9873,5192,8099,4717,1407,257,9107,6321,254,5093],"class_list":["post-234862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-economic","tag-energy","tag-expand","tag-group","tag-helps","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-opportunity","tag-people","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"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\/234862","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=234862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}