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Sewing machines are lined up inside the empty Tzicc clothing factory following the threat of U.S.-imposed tariffs in Maseru, Lesotho, Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

As Trump’s tariff deadline looms, a clothing factory in the tiny African nation of Lesotho goes dark

By Renata Brito - Associated Press

FILE - Matumelo Manosa, center, works in a garment factory in Maseru, Lesotho, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Neo Ntsoma, file )

African nations that faced steep Trump tariffs get some relief but mostly more uncertainty

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE- A Lesotho election official makes a phone call as he waits for last minute voters near the eastern Lesotho town of Mokhotlong Saturday May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file)

How tiny Lesotho ended up with the highest U.S. tariffs in the world

By Michelle Gumede and Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

FILE - Britain's Prince Harry speaks on stage during a concert hosted by his charity Sentebale to raise funds and awareness to support children and young people affected by HIV and AIDS in Lesotho, Botswana and Malawi, at Hampton Court Palace, in London, Tuesday June 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, File)

What to know after Prince Harry resigned from his African charity

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE - Britain's Prince Harry, left, accompanied by Prince Seeiso of Lesetho, meets pupils in a class during his visit to the Kananelo Centre for the Deaf outside Maseru, Lesotho, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Prince Harry resigns from an African charity he co-founded after a leadership dispute

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Prime Minister of Lesotho Ntsokoane Samuel Matekane addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

U.S. trade partner Lesotho takes exception to Trump’s speech jibe

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

In this photo supplied by the Lesotho Government, Britain's Prince Harry, left, shakes hands with Lesotho's Prime Minister Sam Matekane, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024 while visiting the tiny mountain kingdom where he co-founded a youth-focused charity in 2006 in honour of his late mother, Princess Diana. (Lesotho Government via AP)

Prince Harry is visiting the small mountain kingdom of Lesotho, where he’s called ‘the warrior’

By Keketso Phakela - Associated Press

Britain's Prince Harry speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Prince Harry’s Sentebale organization leading initiative to support young people in Southern Africa

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The first arrival of COVID-19 vaccines to Kenya is offloaded from a Qatar Airways flight at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, early Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Around 1.02 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India arrived at the airport as part of the COVAX facility, according to the Ministry of Health. (AP Photo)

COVID-19 vaccine deliveries to African nations pick up speed

By CARA ANNA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA and TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE — In this Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, file photo Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Motsoahae Thabane addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Thabane's wife and First Lady, Maesaiah Thabane is in hiding from police, Tuesday Jan. 14, 2020, who want to question her over the June 14, 2017, killing of Thabane's former wife Lipolelo. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Police: Lesotho’s prime minister to be charged with murder

By HERBERT MOYO - Associated Press

Lesotho’s drought makes 500,000 people hungry, UN says

By HERBERT MOYO - Associated Press

FILE — In this Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, file photo Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Motsoahae Thabane addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Thabane's wife and First Lady, Maesaiah Thabane is in hiding from police, Tuesday Jan. 14, 2020, who want to question her over the June 14, 2017, killing of Thabane's former wife Lipolelo. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Police searching for Lesotho’s first lady in murder probe

By HERBERT MOYO - Associated Press

Pages from a report released from the Washington-based Worker Rights Consortium, photographed in Washington, Thursday, August 15, 2019. The report from labor rights groups says women sewing blue jeans for Levi’s, Wrangler, Lee and The Children’s Place in several African factories faced sexual harassment and gender-based violence and some were coerced into having sex with supervisors. (AP Photo/Wayne Partlow)

Report: Levi’s, Wrangler, Lee seamstresses harassed, abused

By MARTHA MENDOZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, May 21, 2012, file photo, King Letsie III of Lesotho arrives at County Crest Agriculture in Lusk, Ireland. The Springfield News-Sun reports Letsie will travel to Springfield, Ohio to give the commencement address at Wittenberg University, on Saturday, May 12. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

African king to give commencement speech at Ohio university

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Instability lingers in African kingdom after deadly shootout

By NGONI MUZOFA - Associated Press

Regional troops head to Lesotho after commander’s killing

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Lesotho’s military commander killed in gunfight with rivals

By NGONI MUZOFA - Associated Press

Britain's Prince Harry is accompanied by Marion Horn, right, chief editor of Bild newspaper, as he arrives for the German charity event "Ein Herz fuer Kinder" ( A heart for children) in Berlin Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. The Prince receives a Golden Heart award in recognition of his humanitarian work. The German charity organisation Ein Herz fuer Kinder is Germany's biggest television fundraising gala. (AP Photo/Kai-Uwe Knoth)

Prince Harry honored in Germany for charity work

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho killed

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