Sibolla fled Lesotho when police started questioning first lady, Maesiah Thabane, on the 2017 killing of the prime minister’s estranged wife Lipolelo.
The supreme decision-making body of Thabane's All Basotho Convention (ABC) party met on Monday and agreed on a deadline for the 80-year-old Thabane to step down.
It’s still unclear whether Lesotho’s Prime Minister Tom Thabane is retiring, but he’s told media that its time younger people take over.
Minister of communications Thesele Maseribane said that constitutional processes would determine the date when Thabane would step down.
She's wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of Prime Minister Tom Thabane's second wife Lipolelo in 2017.
Tom Thabane's daughter, advocate Nkoya Hlaele, has accused the first lady Maesaiah of being involved in the brutal killing of his second wife Lipolelo Thabane.
President Cyril Ramaphosa witnessed the signing of an agreement to pave the way for the Lesotho reforms authority in Maseru.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to witness the signing of a memorandum of understanding between stakeholders involved in Lesotho’s reform process.
Lesotho has been going through constitutional and security sector reforms since 2015, following alleged coups and the killing of two army commanders.
Prime Minister Thomas Thabane said everything in the mountain kingdom is under control.
The former deputy prime minister fled Lesotho fearing for his life after repeated death threats that started after the inauguration of PM Thomas Thabane.
Thabane takes office at the head of a coalition government, 3 years after he was targeted by a putsch and 2 days after the murder of his estranged wife.
The country is inaugurating Prime Minister Thomas Thabane on Friday, following years of political instability in the mountain kingdom.
That’s despite the death of his estranged wife Lipolelo Thabane who was gunned down while travelling home with a friend earlier this week.
Fifty-eight-year-old Lipolelo Thabane was gunned down on Wednesday night while travelling home with a friend.
It’s understood the estranged wife of Prime Minister-elect Tom Thabane was one of two women shot in what seems like a random shooting.
The vote is being held around two years ahead of schedule under a political deal brokered by South Africa.
Officials are optimistic that the climate for the holding of early elections remains on course.
