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[GroundUp] Anti-corruption agency says Jane Lekunya and his wife were involved in a corrupt scheme that cost the government R109-million

[SAnews.gov.za] Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina has arrived in Lesotho for a three-day working visit that includes a quarterly oversight of the ongoing Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phase 2 (LHWP2).

[AI London] Responding to reports that journalist and human rights defender Kananelo Boloetse was abducted on 5 September from his home in Maseru, interrogated about his work, assaulted and threatened with death, Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Vongai Chikwanda, said:

[African Arguments] Lesotho is two years into a national state of disaster: US tariffs have gutted its garment factories, unemployment has passed 30%, and its main trade lifeline is guaranteed for less than a year. To understand how the mountain kingdom keeps ending up here, start almost forty years earlier.In 1987, something extraordinary happened in this small kingdom, completely surrounded by South Africa. Money sent home by Basotho men working in South African gold mines reached 236% of Lesotho's entire GDP. Not 23%. Not

[GroundUp] Esor says a signed letter created a binding contract. But the tunnel joint venture says there was no deal.

[Cosafa] Lesotho's Under-20 side have excelled in the past, qualifying for the African Youth Championship in 2011 and reaching the final of the COSAFA Under-20 competition in 2017.

[GroundUp] Appeals have delayed the implementation of two forfeiture judgments handed down in May

[Botswana Daily News] Maseru -- Botswana has donated 100 000 doses of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine to Lesotho as part of efforts to strengthen the country's response to the disease and deepen cooperation between the two countries.

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