AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoCreative Business Boost: Création Africa 2 has picked 15 Southern African creative entrepreneurs (from 340 applicants) for intensive mentorship and investment-readiness support, with 67% of the finalists being women—spanning craftsmanship, gaming, fashion, publishing and music, including Lesotho-led ventures. Trade & Jobs: The US Senate extended AGOA for two more years, protecting Lesotho’s preferential access that keeps textile and apparel exports competitive. Tourism Reform: Lesotho’s tourism and hospitality sector is set to adopt a three-year joint reform roadmap, targeting inefficiencies, weak market visibility, skills gaps and infrastructure shortfalls. Music & Rights: A Lesotho music royalties story highlights how artists like Mants’a (Lephoi Mohale) navigated cross-border payment systems and now look to local structures like LESCOSAA. Copyright vs AI: Basotho creatives say AI is eating into design and photography work while Lesotho’s copyright law still lags behind modern image-generation realities. HIV Progress: UNAIDS points to Lesotho among the countries that have reached the 95-95-95 HIV targets, stressing community-government-health partnerships. Choral Push: Youth in choral music are calling for stronger funding and structures to turn choirs into a real jobs-and-income engine. Sports & Youth: Lesotho’s Sharing Olympism Forum in Maseru brought African youth together through debates, poetry and sport values.
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