26 October 2026 by Pascalinah Kabi Thick white clouds drift across the sky, occasionally giving way to patches of blue as sunlight falls over the mountainous landscape of Ha Mosuoe in Qacha’s Nek. Below, scattered homesteads sit among rolling hills, while a winding gravel road cuts through the village. Alongside [...]
6 October 2026 by Motsamai Mokotjo The signing of the $6.2 billion (M100 billion) agreement between the Government of Lesotho and US-based Convalt Energy for the Kobong Pumped Storage Hydropower project and AI Data Centre has been heralded as a historic, record-breaking investment. It promises to transform the Kingdom from [...]
28 September 2026 by Pascalinah Kabi In Lesotho, cooking in the house on an open fire is linked to an estimated 244 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the Country Director of Africa Clean Energy, Rethabile Marumo. The figure highlights the health risks associated with households relying on open fires [...]
22 September 2026 by Limpho Sello For Morakabi Ramohlanka, a strong-wind warning is not simply a message on a weather forecast. In Mafeteng, such a warning can mean waiting for reports of damaged homes, destroyed property, affected crops and, in some cases, schools left damaged by the force of the [...]
16 September 2026 by Limpho Sello Lesotho is developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) aimed at ensuring that weather and climate warnings do more than alert people to approaching hazards—they must also clearly guide institutions, communities and other stakeholders on what action to take and when. The SOPs development is part [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]