Hard times delay MDGs for Lesotho
By Info | June 28, 2010
IRIN News, 25 June 2010
Life is mostly hard in the mountainous kingdom of Lesotho, but the chronic droughts that seem to signal the unfolding impact of climate change are projected to become more severe, and could squeeze cultivable land from an already slim 10 percent to a mere three percent in 25 years. Read the rest of this entry »
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The last best hope of Lesotho, a small country in big trouble
By Info | June 8, 2010
By David Smith, the Guardian, Monday 7 June
“This is the last frontier of tourism in southern Africa,” said our guide as I gasped and wheezed my way up Thaba Bosiu, meaning “mountain of the night” in the Sesotho language – so named because when darkness fell it appeared to grow in defiance of would-be conquerors.
It is described as the most important historical site in Lesotho but, rather refreshingly, you wouldn’t know it apart from a discreet visitor centre at the base. None of the postcard sellers outside the Colosseum, none of the queues at the Grand Canyon, none of the beggars at the Great Pyramid. Instead, serenity and silence and an eternity of wind, and the puckish sense that you’ve stumbled upon a lost civilisation, like one of the original great explorers. Read the rest of this entry »
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