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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has mandated a team of eminent statesmen and officials from the region to ensure implementation of political reforms in Lesotho.
African countries should start measuring their economic performance by city to enable them to design programmes that are tailor-made for the needs of their main centres of development, a senior UN official has said.
Lesotho will hold general elections on October 7, the country’s electoral commission chief Mpaiphele Maqutu said in a notice late Wednesday.
Lesotho and India have taken a major step to bolster their economic ties following the launch of a council to promote linkages between the two countries, according to reports monitored here on Tuesday.
Lesotho was on Wednesday plunged into political chaos after the country’s main party withdrew from its own governing coalition amid internal bickering.
Japan has availed a US$12.4 million grant to assist Lesotho to improve its energy security through rehabilitation of small hydropower projects in the southern African country.
Lesotho has suspended the issuance of residence permits, citing alleged abuse of the country’s immigration system for human trafficking purposes.
Lesotho Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro has declared war against criminal gangs following a recent spate of murders of police officers amid reports that a total of 10 law enforcement agents have been shot dead in the country since the beginning of 2021.
Several Lesotho diplomats have been expelled from neighbouring South Africa over the “illicit trade in duty-free alcohol”, the Maseru authorities announced on Thursday.
United Kingdom-based Gem Diamonds has recovered a large high quality white diamond from its Lesotho mine, the company announced in a statement on Wednesday.