TENSIONS are mounting among the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF)'s ranks as soldiers who participated in the Southern African Development Community Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) and are now demanding ...

"The professionalism of our U.S. team and Lesotho partners was exceptional, and both exemplified the Army values," said Brig. Gen. Kenneth Moore, USARAF deputy commanding general. "The LDF is ...

The growing killings, which had now catapulted Lesotho into the ranks of the top six most homicidal nations in the world, according to the World Population Review, would not end without the army ...

Lesotho allocated USD$52.6 million (Maloti 698 ... s Central Intelligence Agency there are 36 nations without a regular army although sometimes their police act as de facto military forces.

MASERU (Reuters) - Lesotho's prime minister, Thomas Thabane, on Saturday accused his country's army of staging a coup against him and fled to neighbouring South Africa, which condemned the ...

Thabane is clear about who is to blame for Lesotho’s chronic instability. “[When the army was established], there was a debate in many quarters of Lesotho about the relevance of a fully ...

University of the Witwatersrand provides support as a hosting partner of The Conversation AFRICA. In an interview following his recent return as Prime Minister of Lesotho, Tom Thabane has blamed ...

"He is misusing the security forces. This is creating conflict between the army and police. "He is the one who is destabilising peace in Lesotho," Mokhothu told AFP. Motlamelle Kapa, a political ...

Matekane also said he was giving Matobakele the mandate to "do everything in your power to ensure that peace returns to Lesotho" because he had seen how the army conducted itself in Mozambique, and ...

When rival officers gunned down Lesotho's army chief and were then killed by his bodyguards, hopes that the mountain kingdom had escaped its cycle of violence also perished. The shoot-out this ...