{"id":19814,"date":"2011-04-16T12:27:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T12:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=19814"},"modified":"2018-09-08T12:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T12:29:49","slug":"more-apply-for-lesotho-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/more-apply-for-lesotho-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"More apply for Lesotho citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ntsebeng Motsoeli<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MASERU\u00a0 \u2014 Lesotho is experiencing an unprecedented surge in the number of people seeking to acquire the country\u2019s citizenship, Deputy Prime Minister Lesao Lehohla has said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with the <em>Sunday Express<\/em> on Friday Lehohla said Lesotho citizenship was highly on demand.<\/p>\n<p>His comments came four days after Lesotho granted citizenship to 48 foreigners from various African and Asian countries on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have more than 3 000 pending applications. Lesotho citizenship is on demand since globalisation with Chinese and other nations coming into the country,\u201d said Lehohla who doubles as home affairs minister.<\/p>\n<p>This had forced the government to hike citizenship application fees six-fold, from M5 000 to M30 000.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/sundayexpress.co.ls\/more-apply-for-lesotho-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/sundayexpress.co.ls\/more-apply-for-lesotho-citizenship\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ntsebeng Motsoeli MASERU\u00a0 \u2014 Lesotho is experiencing an unprecedented surge in the number of people seeking to acquire the country\u2019s citizenship, Deputy Prime Minister Lesao Lehohla has said. Speaking in an interview with the Sunday Express on Friday Lehohla said Lesotho citizenship was highly on demand. His comments came four days after Lesotho granted citizenship [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[499,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","region-lesotho-fr","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-489","item-theme-naturalisation-et-le-mariage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19815,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19814\/revisions\/19815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}