{"id":249880,"date":"2026-11-11T21:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T19:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/uganda-lesotho-to-aquire-20-kiira-motors-buses-as-museveni-pledges-more-five\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T21:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T19:30:24","slug":"uganda-lesotho-to-aquire-20-kiira-motors-buses-as-museveni-pledges-more-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/uganda-lesotho-to-aquire-20-kiira-motors-buses-as-museveni-pledges-more-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Lesotho to Aquire 20 Kiira Motors Buses As Museveni Pledges More Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Lesotho is planning to acquire 25 buses manufactured by Uganda&#8217;s Kiira Motors Corporation, following discussions between President Museveni and a special envoy from the southern African kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The proposed arrangement involves the purchase of 20 buses by the Lesotho government, while President Museveni has pledged to donate an additional five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The matter was discussed on November 11, 2026, at State House, Entebbe, during a meeting between Museveni and Lesotho&#8217;s Minister of Foreign Affairs and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611110323.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 is planning to acquire 25 buses manufactured by Uganda&#8217;s Kiira Motors Corporation, following discussions between President Museveni and a special envoy from the southern African kingdom. The proposed arrangement involves the purchase of 20 buses by the Lesotho government, while President Museveni has pledged to donate an additional five. The matter was discussed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":249881,"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":[258,256,55824,7174,55825,4717,1407,24479,7776,257,7287,254,4707],"class_list":["post-249880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aquire","tag-buses","tag-kiira","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-motors","tag-museveni","tag-news","tag-pledges","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uganda"],"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\/249880","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=249880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}