Welcome To The Mountain Kingdom
The Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Dr Retšelisitsoe Matlanyane requested funds for the public debt, pensions and gratuities, statutory salaries and allowances in the
OPENING REMARKS BY THE EXPERT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE OUTGOING CHAIRPERSON OF THE AU-STC NO.8
His Majesty King Letsie III as the African Union Nutrition Champion says collaborative efforts towards ending hunger, stunting and malnutrition are amongst the strategies that
Lesotho is largely covered in grasses, although trees also appear on the landscape. Indigenous trees include Cape willows, cheche bush (used for fuel), and wild olives. Other willows and white poplars have been introduced into the country.
Lesotho, a high-altitude, landlocked kingdom encircled by South Africa, is crisscrossed by a network of rivers and mountain ranges including the 3,482m-high peak of Thabana Ntlenyana. On the Thaba Bosiu plateau, near Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, are ruins dating from the 19th-century reign of King Moshoeshoe I. Thaba Bosiu overlooks iconic Mount Qiloane, an enduring symbol of the nation’s Basotho people.
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