News Lesotho Maseru: China's Wu Opera dazzles in Lesotho
Performer from China's Zhejiang Wu Opera Research Center performs on stage during a cultural event celebrating the 60th anniversary of Lesotho's independence in Maseru, Lesotho, O ...
News Lesotho Maseru: Stakeholders validate landmark National Health Policy 2025-2035
Maseru —The Ministry of Health has validated the National Health Policy (2025-2035) following a two-day stakeholder consultation meeting in Maseru on 24 September 2026. This significant milestone sets the direction for Lesotho’s health sector over the next decade and reinforces the country’s commitment to advancing Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The policy provides a renewed framework for strengthening health systems, improving service delivery and ensuring better health outcomes for all Basotho.
News Lesotho Maseru: Lesotho Is First to Apply UN AI Blueprint, Starting With What It Needs Before What It Builds
Lesotho has become the first country to apply the United Nations Blueprint for National AI and Data Strategies, and has begun Phase One of a National Compute ...
News Lesotho Maseru: Lesotho shaped regional political and economic landscape, says King
MASERU, LESOTHO – His Majesty King Mswati III has commended the Kingdom of Lesotho for its monumental contributions toward shaping the political and economic landscape of Southern Africa over the past 60 years. Speaking at Setsoto Stadium during the Diamond Jubilee independence celebrations, the Eswatini monarch highlighted how the mountain kingdom transformed from a sanctuary […]
News Lesotho Maseru: Lesotho’s political parties sign reform accord to ease tensions
Maseru. Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s All Basotho Convention, which holds 53 out of 120 seats of the National Assembly, has ruled Lesotho in an alliance with the Basotho National Party, Alliance of ...
News Lesotho Maseru: Ramaphosa hails signing of Lesotho reform MOU as milestone
MASERU – President Cyril Ramaphosa has witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding that will pave the way for establishing the Lesotho reforms authority. He was in the Lesotho capital ...
News Lesotho Maseru: Apartheid-era ANC chaplain Lapsley to discuss 'healing of memories' with pope
Lapsley was expelled from the country in September 1976 and went to live in Lesotho, where he continued his studies ... After a police raid in Maseru in 1982 in which 42 people were killed, he moved ...
News Lesotho Maseru: Will SADC under SA’s guidance be able to save Lesotho from itself?
But on the positive side SADC has extensive experience with Lesotho after first intervening militarily in 1998 and a number of times since. The organisation has also sent a firm message to Maseru that ...
News Lesotho Maseru: Lesotho: Slain Driver's Family Ready to Engage Business Mogul Nthane
THE family of the slain Nthane Brothers company driver, Kopang Mohapi, says it is ready for talks with murder-accused business tycoon, Tšeliso Nthane, over the circumstances of his January 2019 killing.
News Lesotho Maseru: Lesotho banks on tourism after China forgives debt
In Lesotho tourism is seen as a potential to drive the country’s struggling economy. This becomes a priority and an opportunity specifically after the Chinese government resolved to cancel debts owed by the Kingdom n respect of the construction of the parliament building and the ’Manthabiseng National Convention Centre.
News Lesotho Maseru: Lesotho: LHDA Awards M517 Million Polihali Tender
THE Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) has awarded SCLC Polihali Diversion Tunnel Joint Venture a M517 million contract for the construction of the Polihali diversion tunnels under Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP).
News Lesotho Maseru: Davies and Mboweni in Lesotho for SACU meeting
South African Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies and Finance Minister Tito Mboweni are in Maseru, Lesotho, where they will attend the Southern African Customs Union "Council of Ministers" meeting on Thursday. Lesotho is the current chair of SACU, whose members are Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa, for the period 16 July 2018 to 15 July 2019. "The meeting will deliberate on matters internal to SACU such as the administration of the customs union, negotiations with third countries or regions, including, the Africa Continental Free Trade Area negotiations, the SACU-COMESA –EAC Tripartite Free Trade Area negotiations, implementation of the SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement, review of the SACU-European Free Trade Association Free Trade Agreement," said Sidwell Medupe, spokesperson for the department of trade and industry.
News Lesotho Maseru: South Africa: SA Ministers attend SACU meeting
“Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies, and the Minister of Finance, Mr Tito Mboweni, are in Maseru, Lesotho, where they will attend the SACU Council of Ministers meeting today, 25 April 2019, ...
News Lesotho Maseru: Change of British High Commissioner to Lesotho - May 2019
Ms Anne Macro has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Kingdom of Lesotho, as we reopen our resident High Commission in Maseru. She will succeed the current, non-resident High Commissioner, ...
