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HIS MAJESTY KING LETSIE III 60TH BIRTHDAY
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HIS MAJESTY, PM LEAD NATIONAL FLAG RAISING CEREMONY
In a significant event marking 200 years celebration of Lesotho’s founding and the 58th independence, His Majesty King Letsie III and Prime Minister Samuel Matekane
PRINCE HARRY PAYS VISIT TO PM
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex paid a courtesy visit to the Prime Minister in Maseru on Wednesday. Speaking in an interview with Lesotho News
HIS MAJESTY CONCLUDES UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING
His Majesty King Letsie III concluded his mission to the High-Level Week of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly with the much-anticipated
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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.
Not Called The Mountain Kingdom for Nothing
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.
2, 070, 000
Population
30, 355
km2, square
1966
Year of Foundation
496 800
Unemployed
11,424 ft
Highest Point