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NUA, PSUP TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Collaboration with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on localizing and implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
MINISTER RAPAPA GIVES UPDATES ON PARLIAMENT
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URBAN HOUSING NEED INCREASES-REPORT
The National Housing Profile shows that the increasing need for affordable urban housing in the country is 98,711 and these houses will have to be
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Lesotho is largely covered in grasses, although trees also appear on the landscape. Indigenous trees include Cape willows, cheche bush (used for fuel), and wild olives. Other willows and white poplars have been introduced into the country.
Not Called The Mountain Kingdom for Nothing
Lesotho, a high-altitude, landlocked kingdom encircled by South Africa, is crisscrossed by a network of rivers and mountain ranges including the 3,482m-high peak of Thabana Ntlenyana. On the Thaba Bosiu plateau, near Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, are ruins dating from the 19th-century reign of King Moshoeshoe I. Thaba Bosiu overlooks iconic Mount Qiloane, an enduring symbol of the nation’s Basotho people.
2, 070, 000
Population
30, 355
km2, square
1966
Year of Foundation
496 800
Unemployed
11,424 ft
Highest Point
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