{"id":5204,"date":"2014-09-10T10:50:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T03:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2014-09-10T10:50:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T03:50:14","slug":"its-not-too-late-for-lesotho-to-get-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/its-not-too-late-for-lesotho-to-get-back-on-track\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Too Late For Lesotho to Get Back on Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the early hours of 30 August, soldiers in Lesotho surrounded the country\u2019s police headquarters and Prime Minister\u2019s residence, cutting power in the capital Maseru and shutting down radio stations for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and the newly-appointed commander of the armed forces, Brigadier Maaparankoe Mahao, who both reportedly escaped assassination attempts, fled to neighboring South Africa, which surrounds the small landlocked country of two million people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lesotho News\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkafricapress.com\/lesotho\/not-too-late-lesotho-thabane-zuma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the early hours of 30 August, soldiers in Lesotho surrounded the country\u2019s police headquarters and Prime Minister\u2019s residence, cutting power in the capital Maseru and shutting down radio stations for several hours. Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and the newly-appointed commander of the armed forces, Brigadier Maaparankoe Mahao, who both reportedly escaped assassination attempts, fled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,3993,4717,1407,3992,1410,257,254,4693,2053],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assassination-attempts","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-maaparankoe-mahao","tag-maseru","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-thomas-thabane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}