Full Coverage: Lesotho

26.02.2008 Trade ministers from the world's poorest countries must stand firm this week against WTO moves to further liberalise world trade, a move which has already cost sub-Saharan Africa $272 billion over the last 20 years, says a leading development charity.

25.01.2008 The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, calls for all charges against Lesotho journalist Thabo Thakalekoala to be dropped. These charges include High Treason, a charge that carries the death penalty

11.12.2007 The United Nations World Food Program is teaming up with the world's most popular food blog, Chez Pim, to raise money for small-scale farmers in the Southern African nation of Lesotho.

19.07.2007 In the wake of the most severe drought in 30 years, the kingdom of Lesotho has declared a state of emergency and appealed for international assistance for over 400,000 people in need of urgent food aid.

04.07.2007 On 24 June 2007, a Public Eye reporter Kabelo Masoabi was assaulted at the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) rally at Makhaleng Ha Ramabanta in the Maseru district.

20.11.2006 Nearly 115 million school-aged children will not be in school on Universal Children's Day today--and not because it's a holiday. To help combat this, the Centre for Development and Population Activities has launched community-based non-formal education programs in three southern African countries.

26.06.2006 The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), Africa’s largest water diversion scheme, was funded on the condition that that poor people in the region would not be made poorer as a result. A decade later, more than 20,000 farmers have been displaced by the two dams completed so far.

05.10.2005 A three day workshop on developing media professionals’ skills to better serve sustainable development was recently organised with UNESCO’s support in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

08.09.2005 Severe food shortages are beginning to hit southern Africa, with Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe worst affected.

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The largest and smallest countries of Southern Africa--South Africa and Lesotho--have set the pace for destroying both surplus and illicit weapons, demonstrating the feasibility and low-cost of such programs, and creating a model that can be applied elsewhere in Africa, according to an assessment written this month.

22.08.2003 The Netaid World Class encourages students from the developed and the developing world to interact and think of ways to combat poverty. Over 30 students from Palestine, Israel, Brazil, South Africa, Tanzania, Lesotho, Mozambique, and the US came together to discuss issues like child labour, AIDS and education and girls being denied the right to education.

04.03.2003 Secondary education in Zimbabwe and Lesotho need reforms to make the curricula relevant to the needs of rural girls. In Zimbabwe the female proportion of secondary school students has changed little since independence, while in Lesotho girls outnumber boys in educational institutions but cannot find jobs.

23.01.2003 Five Southern African states could soon be dominated by the United States's business interests and analysts fear that US business will be the only victor if the US negotiators have their way.

31.10.2002 The message that "corruption in Africa will not be tolerated" will be reinforced by the fining of a Canadian engineering consultancy for bribery on a water project in Lesotho, South Africa's water affairs and forestry minister said this week.

28.10.2002 In a landmark sentence handed-down today, the Lesotho High Court has fined a Canadian engineering firm US$2.25-million for making bribes to secure contracts on a dam megaproject. Acres International was convicted last month of bribing Masupha Sole, former chief of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority.

25.10.2002 "Mountains are water towers for humanity, the source of some 60 to 80 per cent of the world's fresh water resources. They shelter nearly half of the world's biodiversity "hot spots". They provide valuable economic resources, too, producing major supplies of minerals, timber, and hydropower. And they are home to rich cultures that are storehouses of traditional knowledge." Visit: www.mountainvoices.org for oral testimonies from people living in the moutains of Wollo, Ethiopia; Lesotho Highlands and Mount Elgon, Kenya.

07.10.2002 More than 16 million people in Angola, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe may go hungry in the coming months, with even game and wild fruits disappearing fast.

18.09.2002 Acres International of Oakville, Ontario, has been convicted by the Lesotho High Court of bribing officials with some US$260,000 to secure contracts on a multi-billion dollar dam scheme. The decision could have sweeping implications for Third World development.