Lesotho’s future at risk as child poverty on the rise

MASERU (IPS) – Flagging economic fortunes and a persistent AIDS pandemic have devastated Lesotho, leaving little hope it will ever be able to pull itself out of its bleak poverty trap. Three out of five of the tiny southern African kingdom’s children are living in dismal poverty. Every fourth child is orphaned. As soon as the [...]

November 23, 2011Read More