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Lesotho to Benefit From $8.4m OPEC Loan for Construction of Infrastructure
The Lesotho cabinet has given thumps up to a loan amounting to M63 million (US$ 8.4 million) from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Fund for International Development (OFID) for financing the construction of infrastructure and...
Lesotho Nurses Strike Over Low Wages, Poor Working Conditions
Despite the government’s orders to return to work during a meeting Tuesday night, nurses and their assistants at Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in the capital Maseru were still continuing with their strike on Wednesday. The strike began on Monday and was...
South Africa Donates $4m to Lesotho to Upgrade Border Road
Lesotho on Friday received $4 million from the South African government for the upgrading of a 47.4 km road at Sani Top, 340km north of the capital Maseru, to Mokhotlong, 270 km from Maseru the capital. The funds have been provided by the South African...
China Donates Food Aid to Government of Lesotho
The Chinese government has donated food worth $500,000 to the government of Lesotho during a ceremony held in the capital Maseru on Wednesday. Speaking at the occasion, Lesotho’s minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Motloheloa Phooko, said his...
Ugandan Experts Help Implement Lesotho’s Civil Reform Legal Project
A team of Ugandan legal experts from the International Law Institute of African Centre for Legal Excellence, who are implementers of Lesotho’s two-year civil reform legal project, held consultations with different stakeholders in the judiciary system...
Farmers in Lesotho Pledge to Increase Productivity in 2010
Farmers in the northern Lesotho district of Leribe, 94km from the capital, Maseru have pledged their commitment to increase productivity in 2010, following a positive response towards their long standing challenge of absence of market for crop production. This...
Lesotho to Migrate to Digital Broadcasting By 2015
Lesotho Communications, Science and Technology Minister Mothejoa Metsing has said that his country had joined the rest of the world in making a landmark decision to migrate terrestrial television from analogue to digital broadcasting by June 2015. Speaking...
Extra Security At South African Ports of Entry
South Africa’s ports of entry are to be beefed up with additional immigration officers to ensure the free movement of people to and from the country during the festive season. “This will cater for the expected spike in the movement of people...
