Lesotho

Cultural, scientific and technical cooperation

French cooperation with Lesotho, which comes under our Embassy in South Africa, is based on linguistic cooperation (there are approximately 10,000 French-language learners in Lesotho), cultural cooperation, and the fight against crime. The French Embassy is leading a project to improve the employability of young people. France provides broader aid to Lesotho via multilateral assistance, including the 11ᵗʰ European Development Fund (€142 million granted to Lesotho for 2014-2020, to which France is contributing 17.81%), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which is providing $93.2 million to Lesotho between 2014 and 2016, to which France is contributing $11 million, UNITAID and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation.