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Lesotho, kingdom of Former British crown colony of Basutoland. Threatened by the Boers of the
Orange Free State, Mshweshwe, the ruler of the Basuto, sought British protection in 1843 and in 1869 agreed to the annexation of his country. Basutoland was administered by its traditional rulers under British supervision until it became independent in 1965.
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Lesotho: the promise of Africa.(PROMOTION)(Country overview)
Magazine article from: Foreign Policy; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...OMITTED] INVESTMENT IN AFRICA'S GUIDING LIGHT Lesotho is a country paving a new path for development...an upcoming branding initiative to make Made in Lesotho a global trademark, Lesotho is quickly becoming an African investment destination...
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LESOTHO ELECTION: 'NO SENSE IN VOTING IF LIVES REMAIN THE SAME'
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 2/26/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...issued this week show that the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) has swept...LCD, won 21 of these seats, while the Lesotho Workers Party gained 10. The latter is...just returned from monitoring the poll in Lesotho. He spoke to IPS about the vote, and...
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Lesotho's head of government to visit United States October 7-12. (Justin Meysing Lekhanya)
PR Newswire; 10/8/1990; 700+ words
; LESOTHO'S HEAD OF GOVERNMENT TO VISIT UNITED...PRNewswire/ -- The Embassy of the Kingdom of Lesotho issued the following: Major-General...the head of government of the Kingdom of Lesotho, will visit the United States Oct. 7...
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Lesotho-Africa's best kept secret: Pure majesty
Magazine article from: New African; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; If you haven't been to Lesotho yet, you haven't seen natural beauty...For, in some parts of the 75% of Lesotho dominated by the beautiful rugged mountains...riverine system of Southern Africa. Lesotho is the birthplace of many of the region...
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LESOTHO ELECTION: 'NO SENSE IN VOTING IF LIVES REMAIN THE SAME'.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service; 2/26/2007; 700+ words
; ...issued this week show that the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) has swept...LCD, won 21 of these seats, while the Lesotho Workers Party gained 10. The latter is...just returned from monitoring the poll in Lesotho. He spoke to IPS about the vote, and...
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POLITICS-LESOTHO: MOKHEHLE'S DEATH ENDS A TURBULENT ERA
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 1/12/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...controversial former prime minister of Lesotho, Ntsu Mokhehle, on Jan. 6 marked the...had been declared life president of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party. Mokhehle, who headed the government of Lesotho between 1993 and 1998, died at the age...
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Wales-Lesotho twinning comes of age: twenty-one years after it was launched, the world's first nation-to-nation twinning is moving up a gear.(Dolen Cymru )
Magazine article from: For A Change; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; When Dolen Cymru (the Wales-Lesotho Link) was launched in 1985 (see FAC...to-country link with the Kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa was sustained on the...and did its best, when dealing with the Lesotho Government, to 'speak for Wales...
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SECRETARY RICE, LESOTHO PRIME MINISTER MOSISILI, AMBASSADOR DANILOVICH SPEAK AT MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE'S COMPACT SIGNING CEREMONY WITH LESOTHO
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 7/23/2007; 700+ words
; ...ministers and members of the delegation from Lesotho, Under Secretary Jeffery, the State...Hackett of our MCC Board, friends of Lesotho, it is a pleasure to welcome you to the...of the Compact between the Kingdom of Lesotho and the Millennium Challenge Corporation...
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Profile: Lesotho feeling the effects of World Trade Organization's new rules concerning the global textile industry
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 1/31/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Considered (NPR) 01-31-2005 Profile: Lesotho feeling the effects of World Trade Organization...far away as the tiny African nation of Lesotho. As NPR's Jason Beaubien reports...easy to find the front gate of any of Lesotho's garment factories; just look for...
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ROUNDUP: LESOTHO COUP DENIED, BUT PROBLEMS DO EXIST
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 9/13/1998; 667 words
; Although both Lesotho and South Africa have denied a military coup in Lesotho, it iw believed that signs of a crisis do exist...Mandela said Saturday that there was no crisis in Lesotho, claiming there was no need to be alarmed by the...
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Lesotho
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures
Lesotho Culture Name Mosotho (singular); Basotho (plural) Alternative Names Kingdom of Lesotho; formerly known as Basutoland Orientation...Identification. The area now called The Kingdom of Lesotho (pronounced le-Soo-too) was originally...
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LESOTHO
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
LESOTHO. A country of southern Africa and member of the COMMONWEALTH . Languages: Sesotho and English (both...protectorate of Basutoland . The territory gained internal self-government in 1955 and independence as Lesotho in 1966.
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Lesotho, kingdom of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Lesotho, kingdom of Former British crown colony of Basutoland. Threatened by the Boers of the Orange Free State , Mshweshwe, the ruler...
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Sotho
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...PRONUNCIATION: SOH-toh LOCATION: Lesotho; South Africa POPULATION: 5.6...in South Africa; 1.9 million in Lesotho LANGUAGE: Sotho language, or Sesotho...people are an ethnic group living in Lesotho and South Africa. There are two...
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Chief Joseph Leabua Jonathan
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the first prime minister of independent Lesotho. For 20 years beginning in 1966, until...Moshesh, founder of Basutoland (now Lesotho). A Protestant, Jonathan was educated...and then for the independent Kingdom of Lesotho (Oct. 4, 1966). In the January 1970...
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