Lesotho News

A 3.5m landscape gallery and visitor centre featuring works by Picasso, Lowry and Rembrandt has opened its doors in St David's in Pembrokeshire.

More than one in five adults in the tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho is HIV-positive, making it one of the countries worst hit by the Aids pandemic.

SADC leaders at the extraordinary summit on Zimbabwe allowed Robert Mugabe to dictate the terms, giving him the coveted backing of the regional bloc, Newsreel learned on Monday.

The southern African nation of Lesotho has the third highest rate of HIV prevalence in the world.

Dubai Multi Commodities Centre and Letseng Diamonds today hosted the historic unveiling of the 478 carat white diamond recovered at Letseng Mine in Lesotho in September 2008.

The BBC is following the lives of seven people from the community of St Rodrigue, in Lesotho, who will share their hopes and fears as they each struggle to live with and work through the country's HIV/Aids ...

The BBC is following the lives of seven people from the community of St Rodrigue, in Lesotho, who will share their hopes and fears as they each struggle to live with and work through the country's HIV/Aids ...

Members of the Milpitas High School Leo Club, under the student leadership of co-Presidents Bruce Tayag and Omair Khan, and with the guidance of their faculty adviser, Lion Diane Kung, completed a book drive to ...

Media Institute of Southern Africa PRESS RELEASE On 22 October 2008 the High Court of Lesotho sentenced broadcast journalist Thabo Thakalekoala to two years in prison for sedition or alternatively a fine of ...

In November 2004, the government of the Kingdom of Lesotho introduced an non-contributory old age pension scheme, in keeping with one of the Millennium Development Goals of poverty alleviation by the year 2015 ...

The CEO of National Heritage Council, Sonwabile Mancotywa, says the Musina area in Limpopo - which borders South Africa and Zimbabwe - will be recognised as a shining example of the values of ubuntu.

Today is Saturday, October 4, the 278th day of 2008. There are 88 days left in the year.

CNN reported yesterday that a honking big diamond was discovered at the Letseng Mine in the Kingdom of Lesotho.

September 23, 2008 London-Mining company Gem Diamonds, in cooperation with the government of the Kingdom of Lesotho, recovered a 478-carat diamond from a mine in the African kingdom, the company announced ...

A diamond unearthed in the southern African nation of Lesotho could yield one of the largest and highest quality round polished diamonds, according to a statement Monday from company that found it.

South Africa will continue to work with the Republic of Burundi to ensure that it meets its guarantees of peace and stability, President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday.

HA TSIU, Makoanyane Letsoara, a subsistence farmer in Ha Tsiu, a village 100km east of Maseru, capital of Lesotho, is in his forties and the sole supporter of his family of six - his mother, wife, children and ...

Mantseuoa Rantho has been feeding her family on credit. "We call it living on skoloto [credit] in Sesotho," she says.

HA TSIU, 16 September 2008 - Mathabang Letsoara, in her early twenties, lives with her family of six in Ha Tsiu, a village 100km east of Maseru, capital of Lesotho.

Motlomelo Thakali lives with his family of five in Motloang, a village 70km east of Maseru, capital of Lesotho.