EU Falls Billions Short On ‘Aid For Trade’ To Poorest Nations, Auditors Warn

Home Europe EU Falls Billions Short On ‘Aid For Trade’ To Poorest Nations, Auditors... Launched in 2005 by the WTO, the “Aid for Trade” initiative supports poor countries through infrastructure, policy reforms, regulatory improvements, and...

MCC TO HOST SAIMSA GAMES IN MASERU

by LENASeptember 16, 2025086 Share0 Maseru, Sept. 16 – The Maseru City Council (MCC) is set to host five countries next week during the Southern African Inter-Municipality Sports Association (SAIMSA) Games. Speaking on Tuesday, the President of...

Vodacom Partners with the Eastern Cape Development Corporation to Empower Youth with Digital Skills

In a major effort to empower the youth of the Eastern Cape, Vodacom has partnered with the Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) and technology providers to grant young individuals access to digital skills. In partnership with AWS,...

EU billions of euros short on ‘aid for trade’ to poorest nations, auditors say

By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) -The European Union will likely miss its target of directing a quarter of aid spent on expanding trade to the least developed countries by 2030, a study by the EU’s auditors showed on Tuesday, a finding the bloc...

Pads or food: The impossible choice facing girls in Lesotho

LIAPENG RALIENGOANE MASERU – In the rural heartlands of Lesotho, the stark realities of poverty force young girls into impossible choices, where basic dignity is often pitted against sheer survival. This profound conflict was laid bare for...

RSL EQUIPS JOURNALISTS WITH FINANCE, TAXATION REPORTING

by LENASeptember 16, 2025September 16, 202509 Share0 Maseru, Sep.16—Revenue Services Lesotho (RSL) held a two-day capacity building workshop for local journalists on effective business, economic, financial and development reporting in Maseru on...

Lesotho Sends Urgent Delegation to US Over Devastating Textile Tariffs

Lesotho has dispatched a high-level delegation to the United States this weekend to urgently negotiate tariff reductions that are crippling the country’s vital textile industry, following the implementation of a 15% levy that has devastated...

SEBABATSO DRIVING ECONOMIC CHANGE 

by LENASeptember 16, 2025September 16, 2025036 Share0 MASERU – Driving economic change and environmental change is one of the topics discussed at the ongoing 2025 ‘SEBABATSO’ youth conference currently going on in Maseru. The conference coinciding...

Seaboard’s baffling Lesotho exit

Multinational giant announces disinvestment from LFM Selling the farm while cutting the workforce Raising questions about motives, fate of the company TEBOHO KHATEBE MOLEFI and MOTSAMAI MOKOTJO MASERU – In a corporate manoeuvre that has left...

Global Voice Group Welcomes High Court Judgment Affirming Validity of Agreement with Lesotho Communications Authority

MASERU, Lesotho, Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Voice Group (GVG), a leading international provider of regulatory and revenue assurance solutions for governments and regulators, welcomes the recent judgment of the High Court of Lesotho,...

Lesotho seeks reduction in tariffs

LESOTHO is sending a high-level delegation of cabinet ministers, and industry and labour union leaders to the US this weekend to plead for a reduction in tariffs, which are crippling the country’s crucial textile industry, reports Bloomberg. “We...

Lesotho Sends Trade Delegation to US to Plead for Lower Tariffs

Workers prepare cuts of denim cloth at the Afri-Expo Textiles Ltd. denim factory in Maseru, Lesotho. (Bloomberg) -- Lesotho is sending a high-level delegation of cabinet ministers, and industry and labor union leaders to the US this weekend to...

BASOTHO HAWKERS STRANDED AS MASERU BORDER DISPUTE DRAGS ON

by LENASeptember 15, 2025September 15, 2025022 Share0 Maseru, Sept. 15 — Tensions at the Maseru border post have escalated once again, leaving dozens of Basotho hawkers stranded and uncertain about when they will be allowed to cross into South...

Meet the banker who gives away half of his income

One of the City’s best-known bankers, John Studzinski CBE, is a shining example of philanthropy, having long donated about half his vast earnings (rumoured to be £13 million a year at their peak) to charity. He’s established and regularly...

Lesotho Times editor wrongfully arrested, admits anti-corruption agency

Lesotho Times editor Mohalenyane Phakela was arrested on 29 August and held overnight in a freezing police cell after the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) accused him of posing as one of its officers to obtain documents for a...

Report: 68% of Moroccans feel safe walking alone at night

The 2025 Global Safety Report, published by Gallup, a U.S.-based analytics and advisory company, found that 68% of Moroccans feel safe walking alone at night. The figure is close to the global average of 73% of adults who reported feeling safe in...

Synthetic stones undercut southern Africa’s diamond economies

JOHANNESBURG, Sept 15 — Botswana and southern African peers that built much of their prosperity on diamonds are scrambling for alternatives as cheaper, lab-grown stones threaten their economies. Diamond-dependent Botswana is leading the way and...

Changing narrative on suicide

Among other occasions which are earmarked each year globally, there is also 10th September on which date organizations and communities around the world come together to discuss ways and means on how to create a world where there are fewer people...

Lesotho HIV patient urges President Trump to stop politicising HIV

PASCALINAH KABI This investigation was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Centre. When Kananelo Khalla, who has lived with HIV since birth, held his new-born son for the first time, a wave of relief washed over him – his son was...

STANDARD LESOTHO BANK INAUGURATES REFURBISHED BRANCH

by LENASeptember 13, 2025September 13, 202507 Share0 MOHALE’S HOEK, Sept. 13 — The newly rehabilitated, renovated Standard Lesotho Bank branch building was inaugurated on Saturday. The member of Parliament for Mohale’s Hoek No. 61 Mr. Cloete...