Maseru, Lesotho – Today U.S. Ambassador Matthew T. Harrington and Minister of Education Mahali Phamotse inaugurated a block of two classrooms at Motete Secondary School in Butha Buthe District. The classrooms were constructed with a grant of $7,440 (…
The Seychelles national football team remains in third place in Group J of the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2017 qualification stage after losing 2-1 to Lesotho on Tuesday.The defeat makes it difficult for the island nation to make it to the last 16 …
The Seychelles’ national football team has taken a step closer to qualifying for the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2017 in Gabon after defeating Lesotho 2-0 on Saturday.After Saturday’s results in group J, Seychelles has 4 points, the same as Ethiopia…
Security forces are beating and torturing the nearly three thousand people detained at the Tolai Military Camp. The detainees were incarcerated in mass in the ongoing anti-government protest in the Oromia region for political and economic rights that i…
South Sudan’s opposition leader Riek Machar says he will return to the capital on April 18 to form a transitional government with President Salva Kiir after their acrimonious split ignited more than two years of war.The oil-exporting country, which gai…
by Elizabeth Lee SAN DIEGO-African-born Meb Keflezighi will be the oldest U.S. Olympic runner in history when he competes in the marathon at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. He will be 41 years old. Keflezighi, in training and racing, has run e…
A man from London was escorted off a Gatwick bound easyJet flight by armed police after another passenger told crew he did not feel safe travelling with him.Mehary Yemane-Tesfagiorgis, who is of Eritrean heritage, was coming home from a trip to Rome wh…
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is giving cash assistance to 21,000 vulnerable people in Lesotho’s two districts worst-affected by the El Nintilde;o-related drought. This is WFP’s first ever emergency cash relief operation in the Mountain…
The Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in Jakarta will be closed from 11pm until 5am from today until June 15 to allow for re-surfacing of its overlays.According to a statement from the Communication Ministry’s Information and Communications Bureau, the sched…