‘Only job I know’: tiny Lesotho’s garment workers reel from Trump’s tariffs

The day after Donald Trump announced sweeping global tariffs, Lesotho’s garment workers feared for their jobs. Last year, Lesotho sent about 20% of its $1.1bn (£845m) of exports to the US, most of it clothing, as well as diamonds, under a continent-wide …

How jeans and diamonds pushed Lesotho to the top of Trump’s tariffs list

Lesotho was slapped with the White House’s highest tariff rates in the list released by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Americans bringing goods in from the small southern African country will have to pay an additional 50% import tax. The US has a …

Why Donald Trump is targeting Lesotho

U.S. President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs April 2 on America’s trading partners. Among the hardest hit is an unlikely target: the small African kingdom of Lesotho, a country he recently mocked. Under the proposed policy, Lesotho’s exports …

'Don't want to die': Lesotho HIV patients look to traditional medicine

In a sunlit shack on the outskirts of Lesotho's capital Maseru, 34-year-old Lieketseng Lucia Tjatji sits under a black cloth pegged to a tin wall and emblazoned with the head of a lion.  To her left, a wooden table is weighed down by containers of …

News24 | Baffled Lesotho seeks to engage with US on 'shocking' tariffs

The 50% reciprocal trade tariff on Lesotho was the highest levy on US President Donald Trump's list of target economies. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the …

Trump imposes 50% tariff on Lesotho

The Trump administration has imposed a steep 50 percent tariff on Lesotho, a small, impoverished African nation of two million people – the highest tariff levied on any country. The measure delivers a severe blow to Lesotho’s economy, which relies heavily …

Baffled Lesotho seeks to engage with US on 'shocking' tariffs

MASERU (Reuters) - Lesotho scrambled to put together a delegation on Friday to head to Washington to engage with the United States on tariffs that risk wiping out nearly half of its exports, its trade minister said, in what could be a death blow to its …

Lesotho to send delegation to US ‘urgently’ after tariffs hike

Maseru – Lesotho said Thursday it will send a government delegation to the United States to plead its case after Washington imposed 50-percent tariffs on its imports, the highest for a single nation. The small southern African kingdom topped the list of …

Trump's tariffs to hit tiny African country of Lesotho especially hard

An aereal view of Lesotho's capital Maseru