Unraveling the Fallout: How Foreign Aid Cuts and Tariffs Threaten Lesotho’s Fragile Stability

In the remote mountains of Lesotho, known as the "kingdom in the sky," a devastating silence now echoes where life-saving clinics once bustled. Years of painstaking work built with nearly $1 billion in U.S. aid to combat the world’s second-highest HIV infection rate are rapidly unraveling. This crisis did not happen by accident; it is the direct result of Washington’s recent policies freezing foreign assistance and imposing punitive tariffs on an already fragile economy. When Cutting Aid Means Cutting Lives For decades, America took pride in leading global health initiatives that saved millions, including many Basotho. But under President Trump’s...