THUSO MOSABALA Antagonistic relations between villagers and police in Kao continue to deepen with at least one resident feared dead following a reportedly brutal operation by the Botha-Bothe police during the festive holiday. The MNN Centre for Investigative Journalism has heard from the residents how they were allegedly hauled and physically assaulted by the men in blue

THUSO MOSABALA The reeling Democratic Congress (DC) has been dealt another blow, this time by the major ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) which has poached the main opposition’s Secretary General Semano Sekatle. Sekatle, who has exceptionally won the Lebakeng constituency under the DC banner since the party’s inception in 2012, has told

Billy Ntaote and Keiso Mohloboli Lesotho’s fast-growing diamond mining industry could have lost hundreds of millions in revenue to smugglers believed to have been operating under the radar between the country and South Africa for a long time. Past weeks arrest of the mining minister’s personal secretary, Refiloe Mokone, by the South African Police Service’s

LERATO MATHEKA The National Drug Service Organisation has shifted blame of drugs shortage at hospitals to government, citing there was an unnecessary red tape in procurement processes that hampered timely distribution of the drugs. The NDSO’s General Manager Matebele Sefali told the MNN Centre for Investigative Journalism that before they could deliver

…as Lesotho prepares to secure its energy security KANANELO BOLOETSE MASERU – With government searching for a service provider for design, development and maintenance of highly specialised fuel storage facility, there is a growing consternation by a potential bidder that the tender is skewed in favour of foreign contractors to the

KANANELO BOLOETSE MASERU – The Youth Leagues Forum of Lesotho has resuscitated its seemingly desperate effort to convince government to halt the long-awaited construction of Polihali Dam until a hydropower station for generation of electricity is built. Polihali Dam is partly Phase Two of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) that was

Mpho Thaathaa The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has solidified its partnership with the media in Lesotho in the fight against HIV and AIDS. A one-day media session organised by the MNN Centre for Investigative Journalism at the American Corner, State Library in Maseru on Friday, saw relations between the

THUSO MOSABALA Five sacked workers of the Lesotho Motor Clinic are up in arms demanding half-a-million Maluti compensation over what they call unfair retrenchment from the automotive company in May this year. The disgruntled former staffers, whose first step was to approach the Directorate of Dispute Prevention and Resolution (DDPR) before their

…as opposition and government ink peace accord Billy Ntaote In a regional facilitator brokered deal, opposition and government on Tuesday this week smoked the peace pipe and inked to put-on-hold all criminal charges against opposition leaders and other persons in exile. A development that gives former Deputy Prime Minister, Mothetjoa Metsing, Pictured, and