Lesotho
Kingdom of Lesotho
Muso oa Lesotho
CAPITAL: Maseru
FLAG: The flag is divided diagonally from the lower hoist side corner; the upper half is white bearing the brown silhouette of a large shield...
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Lesotho
The Kingdom of Lesotho is a small enclave of mountainous territory of 30,355 square kilometers (11,720 square miles) surrounded by the Republic of South Africa. Most of its population, estimat...
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Lesotho
POPULATION 2,207,954CATHOLIC 50 percentEVANGELICAL 25 percentANGLICAN 10 percentAFRICAN INDIGENOUS BELIEFS 9 percentOTHER PROTESTANT 5 percentMUSLIM, BAHAI, AND OTHER 1 percent
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Area: 30,355 sq km (11,720 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 2,022,000Capital:
Maseru
Chief of state: King Letsie III
Head of government:
Prime Minister
Bethuel Pakalitha
Mosisili
Visits in 2006 to...
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A new opposition party mounted a stiff challenge in national elections Saturday, promising to end hunger and poverty in this tiny mountain kingdom in southern Africa _ one of the world's poorest an...
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Johannesburg (dpa) - The tiny southern African kingdom of Lesotho
has declared a state of emergency over worsening food shortages
caused by drought that is threatening the f...
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Maseru (dpa) - A journalist in the tiny southern African kingdom
of Lesotho is facing trial on charges of subversion in a case slammed
by media rights activists as an attemp...
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Long lines of people braved a blistering sun Saturday to cast their vote in tight elections pitting Lesotho's ruling party, which has brought stability to the mountain kingdom, against a new rival ...
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Johannesburg (dpa) - The prime minister of the southern African
mountain kingdom of Lesotho, Pakalitha Mosisili, Tuesday announced a
relaxation of the curfew imposed on the ...
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