Basotho army chief Tlali Kamoli’s removal from office is an SADC condition to help restore stability in Lesotho. Will am ambassadorship convince him?

With the opposition boycotting parliamentary sittings – and its leaders still in exile – the country’s international standing is taking a hammering.

The SADC commission looking into violence and political instability in the mountain kindgom is being hamstrung.

The nerves of the coup-prone mountain kingdom are frayed as a SADC-monitored poll nears to return it to political stability.

Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli has been seen in Maseru and says he is not in hiding, nor did he seize a cache of army weapons.