U.S. Halts Large-Scale Development Initiative in Lesotho, According to Reports #SouthernAfrica #Africa #AidandAssistance #business #BusinessandFinance #CanadaandAfrica #currentevents #development #Economy #Environment #ExternalRelations #governance #Halts #initiative #LargeScale #Lesotho #news #politics #reports #SouthernAfrica #sports #trade #travel #U.S #UnitedStates 
https://tinyurl.com/2yptcucz

https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2025-04/usa-ueberblick-donald-trump-gerichte-wahlkampf-2028

"Die Baseballkappe mit dem Schriftzug "Trump 2028" kostet im Onlineshop des Präsidenten 50 Dollar" -> und die lässt er vermutlich für 50 Cent in #mexico #china #india #lesotho oder sonst wo, die den #usa so sehr schaden herstellen 🤔 Tja, wenn's ums Geschäft geht... 🤔 #donaldtrump ist halt ein #dealmaker 🫣

Đối phó với sức ép thuế quan của Mỹ yêu cầu sự kiên định và chiến lược. Tạm dừng thuế mới không giải quyết tận gốc vấn đề. Lesotho là một ví dụ điển hình cho những thách thức từ thuế quan. Sự tôn trọng chỉ đến từ việc đứng vững trong thương mại. #thuếquan #thương mại #Lesotho #chínhsáchMỹ https://ift.tt/YhLi8z4

Tagesschau: "#Lesotho erlaubt Musks Internet-Satellitendienst - #Südafrika bleibt hart.

In mehr als 20 afrikanischen Ländern ist der Internet-Satellitendienst des Tesla-Chefs #Musk verfügbar - nicht jedoch in Südafrika. Musk sieht sich als Opfer von "rassistischen Gesetzen", was die Regierung des Landes zurückweist." Von Stephan Ueberbach. https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afrika/starlink-musk-suedafrika-100.html

#Starlink

#Lesotho is receiving another bullet from President Trump.

Trump wants to cut cost of running embassies around the world and he want to close them, 60 percent being in #Africa. Among them are #Eritrea, #Lesotho, #Cameroon and South #Sudan.

#StarLink #SpaceNazis #Lesotho #Africa

The headline reads, "Starlink gets 10-year satellite internet licence in Lesotho" and the blurb shouts: "The approval follows a comprehensive regulatory review process..."

Com-pre-hensive people! There's no way a giant Bitcoin didn't plop into someone's wallet..

Yeah. Pull the other one. Oh, what's that? I don't have another one? Bugger, it's because they're all being pulled.

Groan.

Lesotho Turns to Musk's Starlink Amid Tensions with U.S. #Somalia #SouthernAfrica #WestAfrica #Lesotho #Musks #Starlink #tensions #turns #U.S 
https://tinyurl.com/28stbg3w

Lesotho Joins Africa's Starlink Revolution with Approval #Somalia #SouthernAfrica #WestAfrica #Africas #Approval #joins #Lesotho #revolution #Starlink 
https://tinyurl.com/288bgzt5

#Trump & #Tariffs :
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

28 minutes analysis of what looked like a trade strategy on first impression,
with the hilarious example of #lesotho.

Very funny to see that #foxnews, #breitbard and #oann celebrate the announced policy.

Their viewers might still not understand, that tariffs function like a kind of #tax and are paid by us citizens.

#humor #wrecking #economy #usa #tax #lastweektonight

https://youtu.be/5zQ0WewZY50?si=bv0AkEmJ_ZMv-FkI

Ces décisions fragilisent les économies africaines et soulèvent la question du rôle du continent dans ce conflit économique. Analyse de Daouda Sembene, PDG d’Africatalyst.#Afrique #Lesotho #Droitsdedouane #Guerrecommerciale #Chine #États-Unis #France24 #Économieafricaine #Libre-échange (2/2)

Afrique : victime collatérale ...

#Trump #USA #Republicans #GOP #OFFS #Morons #Cruel #Lesotho

Inondations en RD Congo, droits de douane au Lesotho, Sahara occidental : l'hebdo Afrique#Afrique #Récap #Algérie #Soudan #Maroc #Cédéao #Mali #États-Unis #RDCongo #Tchad #Saharaoccidental #France #AfriqueduSud #Lesotho #Gabon #Somalie #CôtedIvoire #Tunisie

Inondations en RD Congo, droit...

Even that country that Trump thinks nobody's ever heard of is getting #Starlink. :-P https://techcentral.co.za/lesotho-pressure-approve-starlink-licence/262122/?utm_source=MastodonAfrica #Lesotho

The most remarkable thing about the #tariff pause: It isn’t really a pause at all. Even as Trump called off the eye-popping “reciprocal tariffs”—such as a 46% tariff on #Vietnam, and 50% on the tiny landlocked #African country of #Lesotho—he still kept a 10% minimum tariff on nearly every country on the planet, and announced that he would raise tariffs on #China to 125%.

#TradeWar

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/04/trump-tariff-pause-damage/682390/?utm_source=feed

Shameful. Republicans are disgusting.

How a Small African Nation Scrambled to Appease Trump on Tariffs
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-tariffs-lesotho-state-department-starlink-deportees/

#Lesotho #ImpeachDonaldTrump #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #NoFascism #USPol

If Trump wanted to make the American #garment factory competitive, he would need to slap a 230% #tariff on #Lesotho. Let's assume for a moment that he does that. Let's also assume that all players (US factory, US brand and Walmart) all cut their margins in half to keep the eventual price as low as they can.

Factory sells to brand for $35
Brand sells to Walmart $40
Walmart sells it to you for $45

The price you pay just shot up from $20 to $45 a pair.

5/n

How #tariffs (don't) work: a thread

You have probably seen news stories about #Lesotho, the small impoverished landlocked African country that Trump has targeted with 50% tariffs. It mostly exports denim jeans to the US.

Let us first look at #apparel economics before tariffs.

To make a pair of jeans, the #garment factory in Lesotho spends:
$3 in labor
+ $3 in raw materials (fabric, buttons, zipper, etc.), and
+ $3 to cover fixed costs (building, machinery, utilities, etc.)
= $9

1/n

The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#fedisafari
#quotes
#mondaymotivation
#Wordle
#wordle1388
#dreamed
#holyweek
#church
#trumptariffs
#lesotho

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