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Lesotho sheds textile jobs amidst US trade uncertainty

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/ USA Lesotho sheds textile jobs amidst US trade uncertainty [GroundUp] 11-11-2025


Lesotho textile workers march against US-tariff job losses [eNCA]  ActNOW!  01-11-2025


Police block protest by textile workers [GroundUp] 28-10-2025


Interview with Solong Senohe, General Secretary of UNITE [LabourStart Podcasts] 23-10-2025


Hundreds of jobs at stake at diamond mine [GroundUp] 22-10-2025



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Textile jobs bloodbath looms 2025-11-20 [Lesotho Times]

USA Lesotho sheds textile jobs amidst US trade uncertainty 2025-11-11 [GroundUp]

Lesotho textile workers march against US-tariff job losses  ActNOW!  2025-11-01 [eNCA]

Workers march in Maseru as AGOA uncertainty threatens thousands of jobs 2025-11-01 [GroundUp]

Police block protest by textile workers 2025-10-28 [GroundUp]

Interview with Solong Senohe, General Secretary of UNITE 2025-10-23 [LabourStart Podcasts]

Hundreds of jobs at stake at diamond mine 2025-10-22 [GroundUp]

Mass layoffs hit multiple garment factories following US tariff hike  ActNOW!  2025-10-14 [BHHRC]

Lesotho Lesotho permit: A lifeline for Basotho workers facing collapse of textile industry 2025-10-11 [GroundUp]

USA Factory workers to march as Lesotho’s textile jobs hang by a thread 2025-10-08 [GroundUp]

USA Trump’s tariffs could cost Lesotho 30,000 jobs, the IMF warns 2025-09-26 [GroundUp]

Ending AGOA will cost 'our souls and bodies’: Lesotho union leader 2025-09-20 [Context]

Lesotho Lesotho workers condemn denial of healthcare to Basotho in South Africa 2025-08-07 [GroundUp]

USA Lesotho faces major job losses unless Trump’s US tariffs are cut even further 2025-08-06 [Daily Maverick]

USA Hundreds of diamond mining jobs to be axed following US tariff threats 2025-07-29 [GroundUp]

Lesotho declares unemployment a national disaster 2025-07-11 [GroundUp]

Union fury erupts over forced Mothae Mine layoffs 2025-07-03 [IndustriALL]

USA Mass lay-offs at garment factories as US tariffs bite 2025-06-13 [GroundUp]

The thorny truth of Lesotho’s rosehip industry 2025-05-15 [GroundUp]

Fight over fish in Katse Dam 2025-04-22 [GroundUp]

USA Health Minister confident Lesotho can manage without US funding, but jobs are already being lost 2025-03-26 [GroundUp]

USA 1,500 health workers sent home after US aid suspended 2025-02-11 [GroundUp]

Lesotho Police launch manhunt for gang leader of illegal mine 2025-02-10 [Daily Maverick]

IDUL disowns verbal abuse allegations at Presitex 2024-12-31 [Lesotho Times]

Govt accused of driving Basotho into illegal mining 2024-12-04 [Lesotho Times]

Ex-miners claim they are being short-changed in compensation process 2024-09-19 [Lesotho Times]

Job losses begin at diamond mines 2024-09-11 [Lesotho Times]

Mining industry in trouble 2024-09-02 [Lesotho Times]

Lesotho SAFTU appalled by sex trafficking of Basotho women 2024-08-23 [SAFTU]

United Textile Employees Union holds Elective Congress 2024-08-10 [Peoples Dispatch]

Village health workers unhappy with pay 2024-07-22 [Lesotho Times]

Enhancing safety and inclusiveness at work 2024-06-30 [IndustriALL]

Nearly 16,000 jobs lost in the textile sector 2024-06-17 [Lesotho Times]

Gvt to meet with striking health workers -DPM 2024-06-11 [Lesotho Times]

Health workers not backing down on strike 2024-06-04 [Lesotho Times]

Female sex workers continue facing discrimination 2024-05-21 [Lesotho Times]

Union vows to fight against discrimination of women 2024-05-06 [May Day]

Female factory workers in outcry over unpaid maternity leave 2024-04-28 [Lesotho Times]

Lesotho miners remembered 2024-04-26 [IndustriALL]

Union takes Adient Automotive to labour tribunal for union busting 2024-04-19 [IndustriALL]

Beyond the sparkle: advancing workers' rights in the diamond sector 2024-02-23 [IndustriALL]

Lesotho Eastern Cape Implats disaster another mining tragedy for people of Eastern Cape and Lesotho 2023-12-07 [Daily Maverick]

Global Multi-stakeholders gather to learn lessons from Lesotho on tackling gender-based violence and harassment at work 2023-09-18 [Equal Times]

South Africa Silicosis: the astonishing story of the driller from Lesotho 2023-09-15 [GroundUp]

Africa Global summit praises Lesotho GBVH agreements 2023-08-03 [IndustriALL]

Lesotho COSATU President Zingiswa Losi – Opening Remarks 2023-07-28 [COSATU]

Prominant journalist shot and killed 2023-06-07 [Lesotho Times]

Investigative radio journalist shot dead 2023-05-18 [IFJ]

Lesotho ratifies three ILO Conventions 2023-03-18 [ILO]

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