THE British government has ordered a probe under the Official Secrets Act into the leaking of a secret report describing a 1996 plot to assassinate Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi. Police in London are investigating how a four-page document from MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service, came to be published on a US-based website. Police officers arrived […]

LESOTHO’S King Letsie 111 marked the third day of his wedding celebrations on Sunday, this time at his birthplace south of Maseru. He married commoner Karabo Motsoeneng on Saturday, at a ceremony witnessed by thousands in Maseru. The celebrations on Sunday have a special traditional significance as Motsoeneng will be given a new name, according […]

UK hotels and brewing company Bass has declined to comment on a Financial Times report that it has put its beer division up for sale to focus on the faster growing leisure and hotels operations. Bass shares, which have underperformed the market by 18% in the past year, edged up just one penny to 696p […]

A FIRE at a refugee camp in northwestern Kenya has destroyed 500 huts and left at least 3000 refugees without shelter. The cause of the fire, which erupted on Thursday at a UN refugee camp at Kakuma, 600 kilometers northwest of the capital Nairobi, has not yet been established. One witness, speaking on condition of […]

SHARES in the world’s top platinum and palladium producers, Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) and Impala Platinum Holdings stumbled on Friday on news Russia planned to resume platinum group supplies. Platinum on Friday was fixed at $715,00 an ounce after hitting an all-time high of $735,00 on Thursday, while platinum was fixed at $537,00 an ounce. […]

TWO Kenyan Members of Parliament were shot and seriously wounded in the capital Nairobi after a traffic accident, police said on Monday. Sammy Leshore, the ruling party’s chief whip, and his deputy Mohammed Shidiye were attacked on Sunday night after their vehicle was in a collision with a matatu, or passenger minibus. Police said that […]

A MYSTERIOUS disease has killed hundreds of flamingos at Lake Nakuru and Bogoria National Parks, in Kenya’s Rift-Valley province, over the past few months. The Kenya Wildlife Service said the infection has greatly reduced the number of the famous coloured birds and warned they could be wiped out within the next few weeks if the […]

SHARES in I-Fusion tumbled at the start of dealings on Friday after the information technology company warned that its profits for the year to end-February will fall short of market expectations. The first trade in I-Fusion slashed 10% or 10 cents off the company’s stock price to 85 cents, a new record low. I-Fusion said […]

SOUTH AFRICA has withdrawn a visa issued to Sierra Leone’s former rebel leader Foday Sankoh and ordered him to leave the country following a protest from the Freetown government, South Africa’s embassy in Abidjan said on Monday. “I have just spoken to Pretoria and I have been told Sankoh’s visa has been withdrawn,” a South […]

A United States embassy official was beaten and his wife and sister-in-law raped by unknown assailants while holidaying on a farm near Ladybrand in the Free State at the weekend. Police on Monday were searching for two male suspects in the brutal attack on the two women, who are Lesotho citizens, and American Michael Breeding, […]