Britain’s Prince Harry to carry out work with his unit at AIDS charity in Lesotho
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LONDON (AP) – Britain’s Prince Harry is taking his Blues and Royals regiment to Lesotho to help an AIDS charity he founded in memory of his mother, Princess Diana, a British news agency reported Wednesday.
Press Association did not cite a source.
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Lesotho taxi drivers protest against shooting
May 29, 2008, 08:45

Taxi drivers in the capital of Lesotho are blocking the main southern road into the city. The drivers are protesting the shooting yesterday of a taxi owner following a row with a government bus assistant.
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Malawi government attacked on its generosity
Praise Liomba 29 May, 2008 02:59:00

The administration of President Bingu Wa Mutharika on Wednesday came under heavy attack from the opposition in the National Assembly over its “exaggerated generosity” showcased in donating maize to Lesotho and the Kingdom of Swaziland during the time last year when the country was experiencing acute grain shortage.
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Training visitors
Wednesday, 28 May 2008.

England had some welcome visitors at their training session on Tuesday morning as they prepared for USA at Arsenal’s London Colney training ground. The children that both Fabio Capello and Ray Clemence met last month in Lesotho were reunited with the England coaches and also able to meet the players and join in the kickabout.
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Civil society in Lesotho begs for peace
afrol News, 29 May

Taxi and bus operators in Maseru have agreed to resume operations while civil society measures to resolve the near war situation are being implemented. However the situation remains tense with fewer buses ferry back people home from work.
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Lesotho: Water ‘Undervalued And Not Treated With Respect’
Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
14 May 2008
Posted to the web 15 May 2008
Lawrence Keketso
Maseru

A two-day conference on water issues in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which opened Wednesday in Maseru, Lesotho, has seen representatives of government, civil society, the private sector, donors and other groups discuss the likely effects of climate change on development in the region.
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