NAMIBIA will be sending a military peacekeeping contingent to Lesotho to help quell tensions in that country, information minister Tjekero Tweya announced yesterday.
Lesotho has been experiencing political unrest and violence after an army commander and two senior officers were killed in a shoot-out at an army barracks in Maseru last month. This happened two years after the killing of the former Lesotho Defence Force commander, brigadier Maaparankoe Mahao, in June 2015.
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