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Lesotho PM Thabane’s decision to suspend parliament over lockdown challenged
Prime Minister Tom Thabane cited the fight against COVID-19 as the reason when he issued a gazette, which was not approved by King Letsie III.
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Lesotho healthcare workers strike over COVID-19 grievances
Doctors, nurses and laboratory technicians among others are protesting following failed attempts to engage government on how to obtain protective gear.
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Lesotho's Thabane warns MPs against 'unconstitutional change of govt'
MPs of Thabane’s All Basotho Convention party said they had partnered with the main opposition Democratic Congress to form a new coalition.
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Govts must hold virtual conferences for journalists - MISA Lesotho
The MISA Lesotho Chapter called on governments to hold virtual conferences or provide basic protection like face masks.
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Lesotho’s suspected COVID-19 patient dies
The Mountain Kingdom’s health ministry said seven patients had tested negative, but it was waiting for three results, including for the deceased patient.
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Lesotho lockdown: Police, soldiers accused of rights violations
This despite Prime Minister Tom Thabane appealing to security forces not to violate people’s rights.
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Lesotho receives COVID-19 test kits from billionaire Jack Ma
The Alibaba founder donated 1.1 million test kits, 20,000 each to 54 countries.
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Free State SAPS open inquest after Lesotho man dies near Maseru border
The death caused panic, with witnesses saying he had difficulty breathing, raising suspicions that he may have contracted the coronavirus.
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Lesotho teachers call for suspension of feeding scheme amid school closures
The Lesotho Association of Teachers said the education ministry’s decision to continue the feeding scheme programme contradicts government efforts to battle the spread of the coronavirus.
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Lesotho opposition MPs baffled by no travel ban on high-risk COVID-19 countries
Tom Thabane declared a state of emergency on Wednesday but unlike his neighbours in the region, he was mum on countries like China, Italy, the UK and the US.
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Lesotho to save at least R100k after SADC meeting held virtually
The country’s ministry of foreign affairs has shown how a meeting of at least 11 countries with the SADC secretariat in Botswana was streamed.
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Will Tom Thabane be out of office before July?
Lesotho's national assembly has voted to amend a provision of the constitution that gives the prime minister singular power to call elections if he loses a vote of no confidence.
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Lesotho’s lone suspected COVID-19 case cleared
The 35-year old man arrived on 28 February and was quarantined when he began showing symptoms on the 9 March.
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Lesotho votes for law change stripping PM of powers to dissolve parliament
The mountain kingdom held three elections between 2012 and 2017 because of a constitutional clause that gave the prime minister singular power to dissolve parliament and call elections if he lost a vote of no confidence.
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Coronavirus: Concerns raised over capacity of Lesotho’s ailing health system
The landlocked country suspended all international travel for its government and parastatal officials, but this caused more panic as ordinary citizens asked what it meant for them.
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Lesotho suspends international travel to minimise spread of coronavirus
The country’s ministry of health on Tuesday notified staff in an internal memo after Cabinet reached the decision on Monday.
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Lesotho musician, 2 others implicated in murder of Lipolelo Thabane
Lipholelo was Lesotho Prime Minister’s Tom Thabane’s second wife who was murdered in 2017. The first lady of the mountain kingdom, Maesiah, has also been charged for the murder.
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Lesotho FinMin Majoro finally delivers Budget Speech after being disrupted
Speaker Sephiri Motanyane had to appease the opposition, which was demanding a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Tom Thabane before the budget was tabled.
