During late August, Prime Minister Tom Thabane
was safely escorted back to his home in the capital of Lesotho, as a result of
fleeing what has been labeled as an attempted coup by Deputy Prime Minister
Mothetjoa Metsing August 30th, fueled by the nation’s military.
The military are believed to be supporters of
Metsing, with an attempted coup further thought to be in response to Thabane’s
suspension of parliament sessions in June earlier this summer, a strategy many
interpreted as a maneuver by the prime minister to avoid a mounting vote of no
confidence amid feuding in his coalition.
The BBC reported:
Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has
returned home after fleeing the mountain kingdom to neighbouring South Africa
on Saturday.
At the time he said the military had staged a
coup - a charge it denied. Regional leaders rejected his call for troops to be
deployed to restore order.
The unrest is thought to be linked to a struggle
between Mr Thabane, reportedly supported by the police, and Deputy Prime
Minister Mothetjoa Metsing, said to have the loyalty of the army.
Here is the complete article.
The Guardian further wrote:
Lesotho's exiled prime minister has called on
neighbouring South Africa to send troops to the tiny mountain kingdom
after accusing the military of seizing power in a coup. Tom Thabane fled to South
Africa on Saturday in fear of his life after the military surrounded his
residence and attacked police headquarters, killing one officer and
confiscating weapons. Since then there have been reports of hundreds of police
deserting across the border, residents stocking up on food and basic
necessities and confusion over who is running the country of 2
million people.
Here is the complete article.
The Kingdom of Lesotho, a nation Lord Neil Benjamin
Gibson is very familiar with, particularly its resources, culture and pressing
issues, as he continues to work with the country’s royal family. It’s somewhat
an openly understood concept that tension has been escalating largely to 40% of
the population living under impoverished conditions, which is documented well
below the international poverty line.
In conjunction with Twin Peaks Investment Group,
Neil Gibson has been diligently addressing and working to bring solutions to
improving Lesotho’s transportation options as one of number of means to enhance
the nation’s people to use the country’s natural resources to create a higher
standard of living.
For more information.
Lesotho, known as “the Kingdom in the Sky” is a
beautiful, mountainous, landlocked country with enormous natural resources,
situated in the middle of South Africa. Lesotho is the only independent state
in the world that lies entirely above 1,000 meters or 3,300 feet in elevation;
80% of the country lies over 1,400 meters.
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