Na Leruo la Linotsi ke Khoebo e Nang le Phaello e Ntle?
Photo Credit: Paballo Juliet Kabi [...]
Every M1.00 Spent Preparing for Severe Weather Saves M4.00 in Disaster Response for Lesotho
1 September 2026 by Limpho Sello Extreme weather is changing lives across Lesotho, but a major shift in how the country prepares for severe weather aims to save lives, protect property, and reduce the heavy costs of emergency response. This is according to the Disaster Management Authority (DMA) Emergency Response [...]
Lesotho Spent M535 Million Importing Chicken from South Africa. Can RSDA Put Local Chicken on Basotho Plates?
28 August 2026 by Pascalinah Kabi The fire crackled. Then came a sudden, unmistakable hiss. In 2024 alone, Lesotho spent M535 million (US$33million) importing 9,781,170 kilograms of chicken meat and other edible poultry offal. South Africa supplied the bulk of it, accounting for M522 million of the imports, followed by [...]
Lesotho Must Look Beyond Weather Accuracy to How Forecasts Affect People’s Lives – Mohloki
20 August 2026 by Limpho Sello When a severe storm approaches or a heat wave, a fundamental question must be asked: “When an early warning message is issued, does everyone receive it? Understand it, and have the ability to act on it?” Mojabeng Mohloki, a Disaster Management Authority (DMA) Botha-Bothe [...]
Maqhaka Poultry Farmer Losses 28 Chicks Overnight
17 August 2026 by Pascalinah Kabi The 61 two-week-old chicks were huddled tightly together, their tiny bodies pressed against one another as they cried for warmth. Still too young to regulate their body temperatures effectively, they appeared to be fighting the cold with the only means they had — clustering [...]
Will Basotho Know What to Do When Disaster Is Coming?
10 August 2026 by Limpho Sello The Lesotho Meteorological Services is warning that weather forecasts are of little use if ordinary Basotho cannot understand what the warnings mean and use that information to make informed decisions about what to do when disaster is coming. LMS Head of Research and Innovation [...]
The Beep That Signals Another Household Struggle
29 June 2026 by Pascalinah Kabi Ping, ping, ping, ping. A week ago, 46-year-old ‘Mathapelo Mokhehle used her last M50 to purchase prepaid electricity credit. She uses electricity primarily to light her two-bedroom house, power a refrigerator, and charge phones for her family of four — two parents and two [...]
Football Fans Could See Players Tire Faster at the World Cup Due to Rising Heat
9 June 2026 by Pascalinah Kabi As excitement builds among football fans around the world ahead of the FIFA World Cup on 11 June 2026 in North America, a new climate change analysis suggests supporters may witness a different kind of tournament, where players could tire faster due to rising [...]
A Herder’s Cracked Plate
Nathanael Chele Lempe is a member of the Monna-ka-Khomo Herders Grazing Association. [...]
People in Letšeng and Kao Are Eating Sorghum Contaminated with Heavy Metals – NUL Researcher
Poster designed by NUL Research and Innovation Hub. 18 May 2026 by Pascalinah Kabi Communities living around the Letšeng and Kao mines are at risk of serious health effects after sorghum and pearl millet — a drought-resistant grain crop — grown in contaminated soil samples collected near the two mining [...]