[UNFPA] Maseru -- Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lesotho experienced a 14 per cent decline in family planning coverage in certain districts in 2020, compared to 2019, with one district registering a significant 40 per cent drop.

[Lesotho Times] The long-running infighting within the ruling All Basotho Convention (ABC) finally reached its zenith this week with deputy leader, Professor Nqosa Mahao, breaking away to form a new party called the New Dawn.

[Lesotho Times] All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader and former Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has hit back at his former deputy, Professor Nqosa Mahao, for allegedly making "nonsensical" claims that he was behind a recent plot to oust him.

[Lesotho Times] Health Minister Semano Sekatle says Lesotho will take delivery of its second batch of Covid-19 vaccines sometime next month.

[Lesotho Times] In another brazen show of police heavy-handedness, officers in Maseru shot at protesters with rubber bullets at the Thetsane industrial area leaving three hospitalised.

[Cosafa] Lesotho Women's National team captain Boitumelo Rabale has spoken of her delight after completing a move to SAFA National Women's League Champions Mamelodi Sundowns on a two-year deal.

[Lesotho Times] The European Union (EU) has donated ?780 000 (about M13, 6 million) to Lesotho for various humanitarian projects aimed at assisting vulnerable households in the country.

[Lesotho Times] The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Advocate Hlalefang Motinyane, has slammed politicians, Mothetjoa Metsing and Selibe Mochoboroane, for persisting with their "opportunistic" court applications to stop or defer their treason a...

[Lesotho Times] Court of Appeal President Kananelo Mosito has implored Chief Justice Sakoane Sakoane to "crap the whip" on errant judges who fail to provide written reasons for their judgements.

[Lesotho Times] Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro insists that suspended Directorate of Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) Director General, Mahlomola Manyokole, should appear before the tribunal which was set up last December to determine his fitn...

[Lesotho Times] Former Deputy Prime Minister Monyane Moleleki says he is done with politics.

[Lesotho Times] The Health ministry has refused to grant the private sector permission to purchase the Russian Sputnik V to fight Covid-19.

[Lesotho Times] CONTROVERSY surrounds the death of a 39-year-old Kenyan national, Martin Masike, who was last week fatally stabbed by a civilian while he fleeing from the police in Butha-Buthe.

[Lesotho Times] Two opposition Alliance of Democrats (AD) legislators, Mothepu Mahapa and Mokherane Tsatsanyane, have ditched the Monyane Moleleki-led party to join Deputy Prime Minister Mathibeli Mokhothu's Democratic Congress (DC).

[Lesotho Times] Lesotho desperately needs foreign direct investment (FDI) to stimulate its economy after the destructive effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro has said.

[Lesotho Times] The ministry of Agriculture, Marketing and Food Security has lifted the ban on vegetables imports.

[UN News] A 77-year old nun from the southern African country of Lesotho has been telling the UN how she survived a deadly outbreak of COVID-19 in her convent and why it's important to embrace the vaccine.

[Daily Maverick] Nearly 800 million cubic metres of water go from Lesotho to South Africa in a year, earning the landlocked country billions. But people living in villages near the dams don't benefit - and even have to get their own water from unprot...

[Lesotho Times] FEDERATION of Cycling Lesotho (FCL) president Rammotang Makatile has been appointed to the Southern African Cycling Forum board.

[This Day] Lagos with its experience of hosting bigger events could do better, writes Ayodele Okunfolami

[Lesotho Times] THE National Covid-19 Secretariat (NACOSEC) is one of the few institutions that have heeded the call to appoint women to positions of power. So unique is NACOSEC that it is led by a female chief executive officer Malitaba Litaba who i...

[Lesotho Times] LIKUENA once again failed to book a spot in the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals after being held to a goalless draw by Sierra Leone at Setsoto Stadium on Saturday.

[Lesotho Times] PARLIAMENTARIANS in Southern Africa and civil society are pushing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to issue US$3 trillion in new Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) so that countries can better cope with Covid-19 and return to a sound ...

[Vanguard] by Emmanuel Okogba