Lesotho insulted after Trump says nobody has heard of the country


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  • Wednesday, 05 Mar 2025

FILE PHOTO: A general view of a village outside the capital Maseru, Lesotho June 3, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Lesotho's foreign minister said on Wednesday he was shocked and insulted by U.S. President Donald Trump saying nobody has heard of the African country, and invited him to come visit.

Trump mentioned Lesotho in his address to U.S. Congress on Tuesday evening while listing some of the foreign spending he had cut as "appalling waste".

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