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Lesotho's textile industry faces massive closures amid US levies
Updated: 2025-08-08 09:47
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A few months ago, work was steady. The factory's 1,300 employees have made and exported sportswear to US stores, including JCPenney, Walmart and Costco.
Lesotho is known as Africa's denim capital. Textiles were the tiny mountain kingdom's biggest private employer, with some 40,000 jobs and accounting for roughly 90 percent of manufacturing exports, according to Oxford Economics.
