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MCC Applauds House Passage of Resolution Recognizing Country's Enactment of Law to Improve Women's Rights
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 18, 2007
CC applauds yesterday's House passage of H.Res.294, a resolution commending the Kingdom of Lesotho for the enactment of a law to improve the status of married women and ensure the access of married women to property ... more
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Hungry for Assistance
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 18, 2007
n the wake of the most severe drought in 30 years, the kingdom of Lesotho has declared a state of emergency and appealed for international assistance for over 400,000 people in need of urgent food ... more
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Church Leaders In Lesotho Pledge To Fight HIV
Topix - Wednesday, July 18, 2007
p> Main Category: HIV / AIDS News Article Date: 17 Jul 2007 - 16:00 PDT newsletters Fourteen church leaders in Lesotho have signed a declaration pledging to fight the spread of HIV in the country, UNAIDS said. via Medical News Today ... more
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Orion Concludes Management Agreement With Lesotho Highlands Water Authority
Topix - Tuesday, July 17, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The agreement will increase our footprint in southern Africa" As part of its vision and expansion strategy, South Africa's increasingly significant and largest independently owned hotel group, Orion Hotels & Resorts, recently concluded an agreement with the Lesotho ... via Hotels ... more
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Mozambique, Lesotho Awarded Multiyear Grants to Boost Growth
allAfrica.com - Monday, July 16, 2007
ozambique has joined a group of African nations that will get additional U.S. aid because of its actions to boost economic growth and implement poverty reduction ... more
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Lesotho leaders commit to HIV/Aids eradication
Topix - Monday, July 16, 2007
p> Church leaders in Lesotho will sign a statement of commitment in Maseru tomorrow on combating Aids. via SABC News ... more
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Church Leaders Pledge To Fight Spread Of HIV
Topix - Sunday, July 15, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The tragic toll of the AIDS epidemic brings compelling urgency to the call for a renewed commitment by religious leaders to achieve universal access for all to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, as well as impact mitigation" Fourteen church leaders in Lesotho have signed a... more
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Lesotho: Masire Seeks to Mediate as Tensions Grow in Maseru
Topix - Saturday, July 14, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"I did not feel right reading the letter, but I feared for my life" President Ketumile Masire of Botswana has been flown in to defuse the political crisis in Lesotho. via AllAfrica.com ... more
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Basotho charged with treason
Topix - Friday, July 13, 2007
p> Five Lesotho nationals were charged with treason in the Lesotho Magistrate's Court on Tuesday. via News24 ... more
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Misa Communiqué On Lesotho Violations
allAfrica.com - Thursday, July 12, 2007
ISA joins civil society coalition in highlighting serious violations of citizens' human rights by the Lesotho's state security organs. Recent events in Lesotho show that the government has roped in the army to fight its political battles in different ... more
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Africa continental govt a step too far
Topix - Thursday, July 12, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The AU itself is in crisis, its dues are not being paid" But even he could not hide that three days of speeches and sometimes heated debate had failed to produce even a workable definition of what a US of Africa would look like. via... more
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UN Relief Chief Calls For Action on Food Crisis
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 11, 2007
he top United Nations humanitarian official today called for international assistance to help Lesotho which is facing its worst food crisis, with 400,000 people - or a fifth of the population of the small southern African nation - in need of emergency food ... more
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Masire Seeks to Mediate as Tensions Grow in Maseru
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, July 11, 2007
resident Ketumile Masire of Botswana has been flown in to defuse the political crisis in Lesotho. His job, mandated by SADC, the Southern African Development Community, is to break a political stalemate over the allocation of seats in the ... more
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Weekly's Survival Threatened By State Advertising Boycott Ordered By Government
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, July 10, 2007
eporters Without Borders has voiced concern about the survival of the privately-owned weekly "Public Eye" following an order from the government to all state and parastatal agencies at the start of June 2007 not to buy any more of its advertising ... more
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Lesotho charges five with treason for attacks
Topix - Tuesday, July 10, 2007
p> Regulars Interact Cletus Morafo Maseru, Lesotho 10 July 2007 06:25 Lesotho on Tuesday charged five men, including three members of the African mountain kingdom's defence force, with treason in connection with ... via Mail & Guardian ... more
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An Industry Fraying At the Seams
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, July 10, 2007
HERE is scarcely a blade of grass in sight over Lesotho now, with only the faintest flecks of green visible from the aircraft coming in to King Moshoeshoe I International Airport. The effects of the worst drought in 30 years are plain to see. Economic hardship raises the risk of... more
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Country Seeks Help to End Crisis Over Disputed Poll
allAfrica.com - Monday, July 09, 2007
he mountain Kingdom of Lesotho has once again reached out to its neighbours to help end yet another ruinous political stalemate that has seen an attempt on the life of the leader of the opposition and a spate of politically motivated ... more
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Government Gags Take Shifting Shapes
allAfrica.com - Monday, July 09, 2007
O UNIVERSALLY accepted is the view that a free and independent media is essential to democracy, that it is the rare government that explicitly seeks to clamp down on and constrain media freedom. Instead, governments today resort to more wily tactics, employing strategies that have a veneer of legitimacy even... more
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Routine search leads to dagga haul
Topix - Sunday, July 08, 2007
p> More than 150 bags of dagga have been found inside the back of truck near the Lesotho Sephapho border gate on Saturday, said Free State police. "Police stopped the vehicle 3km from the gate as part of a routine search. While searching the vehicle, they discovered 154 bags of... more
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Ex-Zim soldier jailed on arm charges
Topix - Sunday, July 08, 2007
p> Harare - A former Zimbabwean soldier accused of plotting to topple President Robert Mugabe was jailed for three years for illegal arms possession but cleared of treason, his lawyer said on Wednesday. "It was accepted that he was given the weapons to forward to the police and when he... more
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