Lesotho News

Lesotho kingdom’s vast mountain ranges, it is not hard to understand how they have proved both a blessing and a curse to the Basotho tribe, the inhabitants of the tiny country located within the borders of South Africa. Inhospitable and...

Lesotho have begun to reap benefits from the overhaul of nine healthcare clinics over the past four years. Doctors and nurses working at the newly refurbished clinics have reported a significant drop in mortality rates among HIV-positive patients since the...

It was the moment that inspired Prince Harry to follow in his mother's footsteps and help Africa's forgotten Aids victims. Cradling ten-month-old Keke in his arms, the 19-year-old prince appeared close to tears as he was told of the dreadful...

Birch (KTM) backed up his successful win of the annual Roof of Africa extreme enduro in Lesotho last year by also winning the gruelling race this time around, while Yamaha's Mead joined him on the podium, in the No2 spot,...

In the scorching heat of the midday summer sun, a teenage boy�s sharp voice can be heard vividly as he continuously summons his cattle. Glad in his shabby-looking rag that used to be a blanket and black gumboots, the only...

The King of Lesotho is in Ottawa Monday to show his country's appreciation to a local charity, which has been helping orphans in the small southern African country for the past five years. King Letsie III of Lesotho travelled to...

Sheep can feed you and give you fleeces that can keep a person warm; you can sell them at the market. The more sheep you own the more prosperous a person is. "Just because I am out here now with...

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has been feeding people in Lesotho since 1965, yet the tiny mountain kingdom is still not much closer to achieving food self-sufficiency...WFP generally only ships and provides food in crisis situations like civil conflicts...

Fifteeen-year-old Ntsebeng Tlokotsi* sighs with relief as she is given 140 dollars. Along with it she receives a bag of maize meal and cooking oil. It is a government handout, and she qualifies for this only because both her parents...