Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has failed to return home as reports of escalated tensions in the country’s capital continue.
While Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane is on his way home, SADC is expected to send a team to monitor the situation in the country.
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Lesotho’s now exiled Prime Minister Thomas Thabane says SADC must send peacekeeping troops to Lesotho, as the situation is "out of hand".
Talks between SADC officials are expected to resume on Monday to discuss a peaceful solution to Lesotho’s attempted military coup.
SA has called a SADC meeting to discuss the recent Lesotho "coup", while the SANDF has refuted claims that it was involved in foiling the attempt.
Lesotho’s Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing has taken charge of the government after Prime Minister Thomas Thabane fled the country.
Tom Thabane says he has been "removed from control not by the people but by the armed forces" and has fled South Africa in fear of his life.
Thesele Maseribane has accused the deputy prime minister of involvement in the move to seize power, after an attempted coup in the landlocked country.
Armed forces have seized control of the country’s police headquarters and jammed radio stations and phones, says a government minister.
Thomas Thabane has defended the Guptas as "solid business-people" and his decision to appoint them to market Lesotho.
Politically connected business person Atul Gupta has reportedly been appointed special adviser to Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane.
Parties in Lesotho’s shaky coalition government have averted a political crisis by agreeing to continue working together until elections in 2017.
Emergency talks have been underway to determine the future of Lesotho’s fragile coalition government, amid suggestions of a coup.
Rural life – its joy, its sorrow, its contradiction – finds new expression in a poignant tale of the kingdom.
The tripartite coalition government of Lesotho is splintering, with its sponsor BBDP leader Jeremane Ramathebane in custody for suspected fraud.
The discovery of a 100-carat white diamond worth an estimated $5-million has put London-based Gem Diamonds on its strongest footing in nine months.
The government of Lesotho is preparing impeachment proceedings against its court of appeal president Michael Ramodibedi.
Judges find that banning daughters from inheriting positions is not a discriminatory practice.
Bafana Bafana will play an international friendly against neighbours Lesotho in preparation for its two Fifa World Cup qualifying matches.
HIV counsellors play a vital role in Lesotho’s health system, but the money is running out.
Players and officials allegedly accepted large sums of money to throw a football match.
People from SA’s neighbouring countries flock here looking for work. Hundreds of thousands find it in the mining industry and in farming and tourism.
Former Lesotho Trade Minister Propane Lebesa benefited from a government scheme that was intended to pay the rent of students studying in SA.
Lesotho claims an Ethiopian is smuggling illegal immigrants into South Africa – but he denies it.
South Africa has been accused of putting undue pressure on a weak government to extract an unfair deal. Caswell Tlali reports.
Lesotho’s declaration of a food emergency in August went fairly unnoticed in South Africa, but make no mistake: this is an emergency.
Katse Dam delegate, Reatile Mochebelele is fighting extradition from South Africa to serve a 10-year sentence for fraud.
Embedded in the belly of South Africa, landlocked Lesotho has emerged as a textile giant in Africa.