Tensions as Lesotho Awaits Report On Military

Lesotho is on tenterhooks as it awaits the report of a regional commission of inquiry into issues arising from the partisan handling of and behaviour by the country's army - including the killing by soldiers earlier this year of the former defence chief, Lieutenant General Maaparankoe Mahao. Tsoeu Petlane writes from Maseru.

Lesotho security chiefs signing an electoral pledge ahead of the February 2015 polls. The security forces remain unreformed and riven by factional disputes.

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