June 1

• Lesotho: Voters Choose Policy Over Personality

  Lesotho's opposition parties have put an end to the fourteen-year rule of Phakalitha Mosisili by forging an uneasy coalition, aided by a large chuck of the kingdom's voters... Read more »

May 10

• Lesotho: Prime Minister Set For Rocky Time at Polls [analysis]

  Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili's ruling Democratic Congress (DC) looks set for a rocky time at the polls. Factionalism is already blighting the new party, which may well find... Read more »

March 9

• Lesotho: Mosisili Bounces Back Ahead of Polls

  Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili has bounced back from his effective axing last month as head of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) to take control of the government with... Read more »

February 10

• Lesotho: Ruling Party Splits Ahead of Election

  Months of immobilising factionalism in the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) finally split the party this week. Read more »

October 14, 2011

• Lesotho: Ruling Party Sweeps Local Polls in Low Turnout

  Despite the factional standoff that is increasingly polarising its ranks, the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) managed to prevail in this month's local elections,... Read more »

September 30, 2011

• Lesotho: Ruling Party Unravels Ahead of Polls

  Lesotho's ruling centre-right Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) has managed to hold together ahead of local government elections on October 1, but its show of unity is unlikely... Read more »