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Lesotho

September 2023

  • The full body of the female specimen of Atherimorpha latipennis

    The age of extinction
    The fly that can’t fly: entomologists make fascinating discovery in Lesotho

    South African scientists find a mystery female specimen with stunted wings identified as a flightless fly

August 2023

  • A geographer by training, Stephen Turner, seen here near Llanderfel in Wales, devoted himself to questions of the sustainable use of land and water

    Other lives
    Stephen Turner obituary

    Other Lives: Development consultant committed to bettering the lives of the poorest people in Africa

May 2023

  • Young African man wrapped in traditional Lesotho blanket

    Lesotho orders indefinite curfew after radio journalist is shot dead

    Murder of Ralikonelo ‘Leqhashasha’ Joki prompts security crackdown in southern African nation amid warnings of threat to media freedom

February 2023

  • A women worker picks up leaves from cannabis plants inside a greenhouse of Medigrow, a Lesotho-Canadian company that grows legal cannabis, located near Marakabei, in Lesotho on August 6, 2019.

    Why is Lesotho’s cannabis boom failing to deliver the prosperity it promised?

    Licences to grow are expensive and hard to come by, leaving small-time growers excluded from the economic benefits that were meant to be available to all

October 2022

  • Malefakome, a resident of the Kome caves site.

    From the agencies
    Lesotho’s last cave residents – in pictures

    A handful of families still inhabit the Kome caves, nestled within a rocky mountain in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho. The caves are now a heritage site in the north of the country, first occupied about 200 years ago by local tribes seeking shelter

November 2021

  • A health official measures the temperatures of motorists as a preventive measure against the spread of Covid in Maseru, Lesotho, in March 2020.

    Vaccine certificates-for-sale scam undermines Lesotho’s Covid effort

    The documents, necessary for entry into bars and sporting venues, are being sold by unscrupulous health workers for less than £20

September 2021

  • Police keep watch in the capital Maseru

    Lesotho murder rate ranked sixth worst in world as judicial system breaks down

    Killings of police officers in tiny mountain kingdom has added to sense of ‘lack of consequences’, say analysts

August 2021

  • Lesotho’s prime minister, Moeketsi Majoro, who tweeted that he has tested positive for coronavirus.

    Lesotho’s PM isolating with Covid as cases ‘go unrecorded’

    Medics fear government is failing to gather data as ‘social media conspiracies’ slow vaccination take-up

June 2021

  • A snowboarder jumps on the slopes at the Afriski resort in Lesotho’s Maluti mountains

    ‘It opened my eyes’: Lesotho ski resort goes off-piste to keep workers

    The pandemic has hit tourism but retraining and a range of initiatives have enabled staff to stay and even hit the slopes

May 2021

  • Crowd of garment workers in road

    Woman shot dead in Lesotho as factory workers’ clashes with police escalate

    Trade unions say they have lost control of protests over pay as employers cite impact of Covid for restraint

April 2021

  • Women harvest cannabis leaf inside a greenhouse operated by MG Health

    Lesotho firm first in Africa to be granted EU licence for medical cannabis

    Breakthrough could create thousands of jobs for villagers and help exports to other markets

March 2021

  • Harry Lewis

    Other lives
    Harry Lewis obituary

    Other Lives: Carpentry teacher who left the UK to teach his trade in Malawi, Lesotho and Kenya
  • A nurse measures the temperature of Lesotho’s prime minister with an electronic 'gun'.

    Lesotho sacks hundreds of striking nurses as doctors warn of dire shortages

    The African state was already struggling to cope with TB, HIV and Covid before latest response to demands for equal pay
  • A still from Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s filmThis Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection, shot in Lesotho.

    Out of Africa: how Netflix’s ambitions could change the continent’s cinema

    The streaming giant has come knocking, but a lack of infrastructure and government support continues to hinder the continent telling its own stories

January 2021

  • WFP food aid handouts in Mohale’s Hoek, Lesotho

    Landlocked Lesotho faces food crisis amid Covid border closures

    Food price increases and economic impact of lockdowns have left a quarter of the kingdom’s population reliant on food aid, UN warns
  • A Lesotho health official takes the temperature of motorists as a preventive measure against the spread of coronavirus

    'We can't cope': Lesotho faces Covid-19 disaster after quarantine failures

    Rise in cases reported after workers returned from South Africa for Christmas, with many crossing illegally to avoid tests
  • This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

    This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection review – an uncompromising tale of resistance

    Mary Twala gives an intimate yet epic performance as an 80-year-old widow fighting plans for a dam that will obliterate her village in Lesotho

December 2020

  • Kenan Malik

    From the land of no cinemas, a film worth watching in one

    Kenan Malik
    Entered in the Oscars, the story of a widow’s will to live is a story Lesotho’s residents, and the rest of us, deserve to see

November 2020

  • mary twala Beyonce Black is King

    From Beyoncé to the Oscars: Mary Twala, Africa's queen of cinema

    The late South African actor was introduced to a whole new audience in Beyoncé’s Black Is King. But it’s her final film – This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection – that could be her best work

October 2020

  • Chinese clothing factory for making blue jeans in Lesotho Africa<br>AEGMB9 Chinese clothing factory for making blue jeans in Lesotho Africa

    The Audio Long Read
    Fashion's dirty secret: how sexual assault took hold in jeans factories – podcast

    After revelations of sexual violence in Lesotho garment factories, where jeans are made for brands such as Levi’s, workers fought for better conditions. But now Covid-19 has hit the fashion industry, those gains may be lost
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