Lesotho Media

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Lesotho orders indefinite curfew after radio journalist is shot dead

The Observer 18 May 2023

The Lesotho chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) said Joki’s death was an attempt to silence journalists ... “As a vanguard for free speech and a free press, Misa Lesotho unreservedly condemns this atrocious occurrence that acts as a scarecrow for the media’s exercise of its freedom to operate without any frontiers.”.

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Top Lesotho journalist gunned down outside radio station

News24 16 May 2023

A sombre atmosphere has engulfed the media fraternity in the Kingdom of Lesotho after journalist Ralikonelo Joki was shot dead ... .

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Lesotho: Campaigning Radio Presenter Shot Dead

All Africa 16 May 2023

Maseru -- POPULAR radio presenter Ralikonelo Joki has been shot and killed, in a development that has sent shockwaves across the media fraternity in Lesotho ....

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Lesotho journalist Ralikonelo Joki killed after radio show

CPJ 15 May 2023

on Sunday, May 14, an unknown number of people shot Joki in the head once and body at least 13 times as he left the privately owned radio station Ts’enolo FM in the capital, Maseru, according to multiple news reports and a statement by the Lesotho chapter of regional press freedom group Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA).

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COP28: Time for action towards a just transition with no one left behind

Independent online (SA) 09 May 2023

By Mahash Al Hameli ... It is a most important time for many reasons; our world is at increasing risk ... South Africa knows all about this ... * HE Mahash Al Hameli is the UAE Ambassador to South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Lesotho. ** The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of Independent Media or IOL . .

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Five South Africans still trapped in Sudan

Independent online (SA) 28 Apr 2023

Minister in the Presidency for State Security, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said they are working around the clock to bring the stranded South Africans back home ... Ntshavheni, who was briefing the media on Friday, said in the first rescue mission they had managed to also assist people from Zimbabwe, Angola, Lesotho, Namibia and Brazil ... Current Affairs .

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Lesotho MP demands huge parts of South Africa

Yahoo Daily News 29 Mar 2023

The Basotho people are divided between those in Lesotho and those in South Africa ... Mr Lipholo has previously told Lesotho media that he also hopes to have the motion discussed in the British Parliament "since it was the UK that gave Lesotho its independence in 1966, without correcting the borders seized by the Afrikaners".

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King Charles was 'dead-set against' Prince Harry talking about Diana

The News International 01 Feb 2023

Harry, in his early teens at the time, now recalls how he seldom spoke about his mum with the media. In a rare instance, Harry first addressed questions around his parents in Lesotho. He writes in memoir ‘Spare’ ... .

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Lesotho country profile

Yahoo Daily News 20 Dec 2022

Map of Lesotho. The Kingdom of Lesotho is made up mostly of highlands, where many of the villages can be reached only on horseback, by foot or light aircraft ... The Lesotho Highlands Water Project was completed in the 1990s to export water to South Africa ... Read more country profiles - Profiles by BBC MonitoringKINGDOM OF LESOTHO.

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The Most Shocking 'Harry & Meghan' Bombshells

Henry Herald 08 Dec 2022

Prince Harry was terrified that Meghan Markle would leave him if the media found out about them ... "When I got to meet M, I was terrified she would be driven away by the media, the same media who have driven so many people away from me ... "Lesotho gave me the space, the freedom, to breathe, to live and to grow," he said.

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Wealthy Lesotho Prime Minister-elect to pay for his own inauguration which is set for Friday

Independent online (SA) 27 Oct 2022

Cape Town - Lesotho Prime Minister-elect Sam Matekane’s Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) party, a party set up only six months ago, won 56 out of 120 seats in Lesotho’s Parliament in recent elections ... The Lesotho Times reported on Thursday that the Prime Minister will fund his own inauguration ... Lesotho’s Challenges.

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Who is Lesotho’s new Prime Minister, mogul Sam Matekane?

Mail Guardian South Africa 12 Oct 2022

From jets to diamonds, and now the top job in Lesotho, Sam Matekane has acquired it all ... It was a triumph last seen in 2007 when the then-ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy won 61 parliamentary seats ... The media says he is a philanthropist, Lesotho business mogul, self-made businessperson and a diamond millionaire.

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Former Seychelles President Chairs Commonwealth Observers

All Africa 06 Oct 2022

Seychelles' former President, Danny Faure, will lead the Commonwealth Observer Group - comprising of politics, media, gender, and election administration experts - at the general elections in Lesotho on October 7 ....

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Chinese-born businessman runs for parliament in tiny African country of Lesotho

Hong Kong Standard 28 Sep 2022

Shanghai-born Zhenyu Shao is running as a local candidate for the parliamentary elections in the Ha-Tsolo constituency of the capital of Lesotho, Maseru. . Shao, a businessperson, moved to Lesotho 25 years ago and naturalized as a citizen of the tiny, landlocked African state in 2006. .

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DENIM SPIRIT: Queens and kings, oh my!

Finger Lakes Times 21 Sep 2022

news media? (Why do hurricanes take up so much space, for that matter?). Lesotho, Morocco, and Swaziland have kings, but I don’t remember news coverage of their coronations or burials ... Surprisingly, the King of Thailand is the richest of the royals, so money cannot be the reason the media is obsessed with British royalty.