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            <title><![CDATA[Lesotho Sends Trade Delegation to US to Plead for Lower Tariffs]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathabiso Ralengau]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:21:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Russia’s Push to Recruit South African Women Triggers Probe]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[One company has a military drone factory and the government has started an investigation.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[African Kingdom Lesotho Gives Starlink License in Overture to US]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathabiso Ralengau]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:27:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Tariffs to Supersede US Congress-Backed Africa Trade Pact]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 11:36:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump Hits African Kingdom Lesotho With World-Highest Tariff]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 08:54:53 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lesotho Bans South Africa Poultry Products on Bird Flu Outbreak]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathabiso Ralengau]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2023 08:40:44 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Journalist’s Murder Leads to Curfew in African Mountain Kingdom Lesotho]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2023 11:53:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lesotho Names First Female Central Bank Head as Finance Minister]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathabiso Ralengau]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:39:34 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Three Lesotho Parties Form Coalition to Rule Mountain Kingdom]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 11:27:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Newcomer Wins Most Seats in Lesotho’s Parliamentary Elections]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:31:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Political Instability Seen Continuing After Elections in Lesotho]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathabiso Ralengau]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:41:20 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Lesotho Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro casts his vote at a polling station in Maseru, on October 7, 2022. - Voters in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho will cast their ballots in parliamentary elections on October 7, 2022, but hopes are low that the outcome will end the country&apos;s long-running political gridlock (Photo by MOLISE MOLISE / AFP) (Photo by MOLISE MOLISE/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lesotho Declares Two-Week State of Emergency as Bills Not Passed]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathabiso Ralengau]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:01:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lesotho to Hold Elections in October After Five Years of Divisions]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathabiso Ralengau]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:26:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lesotho Delays Budget After Main Party Withdraws From Coalition]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathabiso Ralengau]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2022 12:25:32 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Moeketsi Majoro, Lesotho&apos;s prime minister, arrives at the European Union-Africa Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. Brussels welcomes about 40 African leaders for the first time in eight years, aiming to reset European relations with the continent as it vies with China for influence.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lesotho Delays Budget After Main Party Withdraws From Coalition]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathabiso Ralengau]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2022 12:23:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lesotho Makes Vaccines Mandatory to Access Workplaces, Services]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathabiso Ralengau]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 08:48:58 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lesotho Investigates Five Deaths Following J&J Vaccinations]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathabiso Ralengau]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2021 15:44:37 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Solar Firm Seeks to Seize Lesotho’s Share in Undersea Cable]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Antony Sguazzin]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2021 20:39:05 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Electrical power lines hang from a transmission pylon in Pretoria, South Africa, on Friday, May 31, 2019. While South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. is considered too big to fail, it could be too big to support because of the costs associated with stabilizing its finances, Engineering News reported, citing S&amp;P Global Ratings Director Ravi Bhatia. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lesotho May See Global Assets Seized After Contract Breach]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Antony Sguazzin]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2021 08:06:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Political Crisis Looms in Lesotho as Ruling Party Splits]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mathabiso Ralengau]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2021 11:11:38 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>All Basotho Convention (ABC) deputy leader, Professor Nqosa Mahao, 62, poses for a portrait in Maseru on January 30, 2020. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP) (Photo by MICHELE SPATARI/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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