From the Blue Community Water Journalists Africa:
Paying the Price. How a Lesotho water project is caught between U.S. and China, with locals paying the price.
The U.S. is unhappy with Lesotho, a landlocked kingdom entirely surrounded by South Africa, for its decision to award major construction contracts in its flagship water infrastructure project to Chinese firms, an investigation reveals.
Washington saw the move as a sign of deepening Chinese influence in a strategically important project, triggering a sharp backlash and one of the harshest trade penalties Lesotho has ever faced.
