‘A country nobody has ever heard of’: Trump’s remark alarms Lesotho workers

Growing concerns among businesses and residents in Lesotho over the fate of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a key US-Africa trade deal up for renewal this year. It provides duty-free access for certain products from about 30 sub-Saharan African countries. On March 4, US President Donald Trump called the tiny landlocked kingdom ‘a country no one has heard of.’