#lesotho

Landlocked Lesotho faces food crisis amid Covid border closures | Hunger | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jan/19/landlocked-lesotho-faces-food-crisis-amid-covid-border-closures
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The situation in Lesotho has been exacerbated by extended lockdowns in neighbouring South Africa to curb the spread of the virus, which the agency said would prolong high levels of unemployment and loss of income.
’We can’t cope’: Lesotho faces Covid-19 disaster after quarantine failures
Read moreThe number of people requiring food assistance this year is about 35% higher than the number between October 2019 and March 2020, said the FAO.In 2019, the UN appealed for $34 million (£25 million) to provide food aid for half a million people until May last year, following poor rains over two consecutive seasons. It warned that thousands of people were close to famine.Lesotho imports the bulk of its goods and services from South Africa and has been feeling the effects of tougher lockdown restrictions imposed by President Cyril Ramaphosa earlier this month.
South Africa has now surpassed 1.3 million cases of Covid-19 and has consistently recorded more than 10,000 new daily cases since 1 January. Ramaphosa has closed all land borders until 15 February and imposed restrictions on public gatherings.“The increase in the prevalence and severity of food insecurity has been predominantly driven by the effects of the lockdown measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic,” said the FAO.
“The restrictions on the movement of people and the closure of non-essential industries resulted in the loss of jobs and incomes, reducing people’s capacity to access adequate diets. The restrictions affected the workforce within the country, but also migrant workers in South Africa.”

#Covid-19#migrant#migration#lesotho#afriquedusud#economie#sante#travailleurmigrant#frontiere#chomage#confinement

Crossing the Lesotho-South Africa border

One individual and a short journey across the #Lesotho border capture South Africa’s awkward economic and social relationship with the Kingdom in the Sky.

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Château d’#eau de l’Afrique du Sud, le #Lesotho souffre de la #sécheresse

Mohlakoana Molise vit au-dessus de l ?immense lac artificiel de Katse, véritable supplice de Tantale pour ce petit agriculteur : son pays, le Lesotho, subit sa pire sécheresse depuis 35 ans, mais l ?essentiel de ses abondantes réserves en eau est exporté en Afrique du Sud.

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Des flots à contre-courant : des montagnes du Lesotho à la métropole sud-africaine

Cet article aborde les territoires de #montagne comme fournisseurs en #eau pour la métropole du #Gauteng au travers du cas du Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) – projet de transfert hydraulique transfrontalier entre le #Lesotho et l’#Afrique_du_Sud. Cela permettra d’articuler les enjeux hydropolitiques aux questions de territorialités. Le LHWP a donné lieu à la reproduction de relations asymétriques entre et au sein des territoires métropolitains et montagneux des deux pays. Des coalitions entre acteurs ont émergé des relations que ces transferts ont instituées. A ce titre, ce projet peut être analysé en tant qu’agencement hydraulique où s’articule ou se confronte trois différentes échelles de territorialités : celle régionaliste des élites économiques et politiques sud-africaines contemporaines, de concentration des #ressources_hydrauliques d’Afrique Australe au profit de l’ « assoiffée » région de Johannesburg ; celle du gouvernement de l’Etat du Lesotho : d’une politique nationaliste de monopolisation des enjeux socio-spatiaux au profit de la seule échelle nationale ; celle des communautés #basotho : d’autonomie par rapport aux interventions de l’Etat et de revendication d’une nation basotho transnationale.

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Can #Lesotho survive more #development?
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/01/can-lesotho-survive-more-development

In Lesotho, the state and the development industry often see development and macroeconomic growth as synonymous. This simplification represents the easy consensus that neoliberalism has won for a very specific view of how aid should benefit poor people. This view puts economic growth front and center in conversations about development and assume growth is the […]

#INEQUALITY_PAGE

The Basotho people must have a stake in the production and distribution of their culture
▻http://africasacountry.com/basotho-blankets-cultural-appropriation

Blankets are to Basotho people a cultural emblem. Our blankets, much like the cow, are central to every rite of passage in our culture; from childbirth to marriage to burial.....

#CULTURE_PAGE #basotho_blankets #Fashion #Lesotho #style

Political Violence: The cloud looming over #Lesotho
▻http://africasacountry.com/political-violence-the-cloud-looming-over-lesotho

Last week in Lesotho, opposition leaders Tom Thabane and Thesele ‘Maseribane fled to Botswana and South Africa, again seeking protection from SADC against what they said were assassination attempts by.....

#FRONT_PAGE #Politics

Letters to #Hlompho_Letsielo
▻http://africasacountry.com/letters-to-hlompho-letsielo

Last week, #Lesotho lost one of its most vibrant creative minds, the photographer Hlompho Letsielo. As friends, we’ve written letters to him in the next world. — From Lineo: Picture.....

#CULTURE_PAGE #Photography

Is this the maturation of #POLITICS in #Lesotho?
▻http://africasacountry.com/is-this-the-maturation-of-politics-in-lesotho

Development, broadly defined, has dominated Lesotho’s political discourse throughout its nearly 50 years of independence. On Wednesday, Pakalitha Mosisili of Lesotho’s Democratic Congress (DC) announced the formation of a new.....

#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY

Politique : Mission d’observation électorale par l’UA pour les législatives au #Lesotho
▻http://grigrinews.com/politique-mission-observation-electorale-par-ua-pour-les-legislatives-au-lesotho/2869

Actualités Afrique « 26/02/2015, Maseru, Lesotho : La présidente de la Commission de l’Union africaine Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma a donné son feu vert pour le déploiement d’une mission d’observation électorale pour les législatives prévues le 28 février au Lesotho. »(c) 2015 - Grigrinews.com

Proverbe Basuto – #Lesotho – Le lion ne prête pas ses dents à son frère
▻http://grigrinews.com/proverbe-basuto-lesotho-le-lion-ne-prete-pas-ses-dents-a-son-frere/2798

« 18/02/2015, Proverbe Basuto – Lesotho - Le lion ne prête pas ses dents à son frère : Charité bien ordonnée commence par soi-même. »

Ba re e ne re: The rebirth of a literary dream in #Lesotho
▻http://africasacountry.com/ba-re-e-ne-re-the-rebirth-of-a-literary-dream-in-lesotho

In Sesotho, the language of Lesotho, the words “Ba re e ne re…” mean “They say it was said…” Similar to once upon a time, this is how folktales begin in Sesotho. The words have another deeper meaning however, they represent the life and legacy of a phenomenal spirit called Liepollo Rantekoa. Liepollo was born […]

#BOOKS #POETRY #festivals

South African Hip Hop–An Outsider’s Perspective
▻http://africasacountry.com/south-african-hip-hop-an-outsiders-perspective

One evening while channel surfing at home, I stumbled upon what sounded like a rap cypher* on the #radio. Quickly, I got up to look for an empty cassette tape nearby. Once I found one (a see-through Sonotech C-60 if memory serves right), hurriedly inserted it into the tape deck, and pressed the record button. That moment marked my […]

#MUSIC ##SAHipHop2014 #Asylum_Trybe #Harambe #Lesotho #Prokid #Proverb #Skwatta_Kamp #South_African_hip-hop #Sprite_Rap_Activity_Jam #YFM

There is more to #Lesotho than blankets, mountains and horse rides
▻http://africasacountry.com/there-is-more-to-lesotho-than-blankets-mountains-and-horse-rides

“The Forgotten Kingdom,” the new feature #FILM by American director #Andrew_Mudge, depicts the story of a rebellious young man called Atang, toiling in inner city Johannesburg. When Atang’s father, living elsewhere in a Joburg township, passes away, he must voyage back to his homeland of Lesotho to honour his father’s wish to be buried in […]

#Basothu #Lebohang_Ntsane #The_Forgotten_Kingdom

Lesotho’s Politics Go Pop
▻http://africasacountry.com/lesothos-politics-go-pop

Lesotho’s Prime Minister and leader of the coalition government #Tom_Thabane has found love: ‘It is one of the best decisions that I ever made in my entire life,’ the statesman said in a recent newspaper interview (in Sotho). The circumstances in which the news was revealed, was less rosy: a bomb explosion and unidentified gunmen shooting at his lover’s house.

#MEDIA #MUSIC #Cassper_Nyovest #Lesotho_hip_hop #Lesotho_Prime_Minister #Phil_Chinyangwa