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Lesotho (; ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho , is an enclaved, landlocked country in southern Africa completely surrounded by South Africa. It is just over in size and has a population slightly over two million. Its capital and largest city is Maseru. Lesotho is a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The name Lesotho translates roughly into the land of the people who speak Sesotho. About 40% of the population lives below the international poverty line of US $1.25 a day.

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A consortium to which the company belongs faces new charges of bribery, this time over another dam project in Lesotho in Southern Africa.

We went to the mines, just as people did from Lesotho and Mozambique and Malawi and all those countries.

In December 1982 the South African military raided Lesotho and killed forty-two members of the A.

Quebec a true part of Canada any more than Lesotho saw itself as part of SOUTHAF.

For all I knew, she had been expecting to materialize in Lesotho or Rio de Janeiro.

The result was the country known today as Lesotho, which is completely surrounded by South Africa.

However, the fact remains that for the two centuries since, Lesotho has been entirely overshadowed by the much more compelling story of South Africa as a whole.

In her sixties, in socks and sandals, floral dresses scoop-necked for the climate showing the weathered hide of her bosom as two worn leather cushions crumpled together, she bore her trophies from Nigeria, Ghana, Angola, Mozambique, from Tanzania and Kenya, from little Swaziland and Lesotho, back to America.

Native states whose formation from chiefdoms happened to be witnessed by Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries include the Polynesian Hawaiian state, the Polynesian Tahitian state, the Merina state of Madagascar, Lesotho and Swazi and other southern African states besides that of the Zulus, the Ashanti state of West Africa, and the Ankole and Buganda states of Uganda.