8 February 2021
LOCKDOWN restrictions aimed at fighting the Covid-19 pandemic in Lesotho have had an unintended adverse negative impact of undermining women's customary land rights, a regional human rights body has found. The organisation, Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA), said its research on the…
8 December 2020
The Kingdom of Lesotho recently signed on to the International Fund for Agricultural Development’s (IFAD) extension of the Smallholder Agriculture Development Project (SADP) to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable small-scale farmers. SADP II, the project’s second phase, targets youth and women to…
1 December 2020
UNLESS Lesotho governments refrain from the habit of awarding grossly inflated tenders for various infrastructure projects, future generations will be caught up in a massive debt trap which will only impede the country’s development, analysts have warned. The warning comes against the background of…
Value: $21,000,000.00
Donors: United States Agency for International Development
Value: $11,850,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Value: $300,000.00
Donors: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Lesotho has seen a rapid urbanisation with the quadrupling of its urban population between 1976 and 2006
