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27 Mar 2013

Lesotho
Fishing for jobs in Lesotho

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— IRIN

HASEPHAPO-TAUNYANE, 27 March 2013 (IRIN) - Tsotleho Befole, 24, travelled from the highlands of Lesotho to neighbouring South Africa twice in the past year, searching for work in the mines. Both times it proved fruitless.

"They said I needed a South African ID to get work. I only have a Basotho passport. [But] there is no work in Lesotho. Nothing," he told IRIN.

"The only work is down there," he clarified, pointing to a fish farm at the Katse Dam.

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26 Mar 2013

Lesotho
Mixed picture for Lesotho's food security

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— IRIN

The prospect of an improved harvest has brought hope to thousands of farmers. However, a lack of rain, an outbreak of army worms and intense heat in February caused more problems.

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25 Mar 2013

South Africa + 14 others
Southern Africa cracks down on TB in mines

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— IRIN

JOHANNESBURG, 25 March 2013 (IRIN) - South Africa's gold mines are estimated to have the highest number of new tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world, making the disease a leading export to neighbouring countries. IRIN takes a look at the declaration meant to change this situation.

In August 2012, heads of state from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) agreed to sign the SADC Declaration on TB in the Mining Sector, following endorsements by their national ministers for health, labour and justice.

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08 Aug 2012

World + 32 others
Alimentation : Les régions les plus durement affectées par la hausse des prix

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— IRIN

JOHANNESBOURG, 8 août 2012 (IRIN) - Selon l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO), les pays du Sahel de l'Afrique de l'Ouest, de la Corne de l'Afrique et de l'Afrique centrale et du Sud - dont plusieurs dépendent principalement des importations de céréales pour nourrir leur population - sont les plus exposés aux conséquences de la hausse des cours mondiaux des céréales. Si une part importante de la population mondiale doit déjà composer avec la hausse des prix des denrées alimentaires, elle est appelée à s'accroître dans les mois à venir.

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06 Aug 2012

World + 32 others
Food: Price shock hotspots

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— IRIN

JOHANNESBURG, 6 August 2012 (IRIN) - As global grain prices begin to climb, the Sahel countries of West Africa, those in the Horn, and in central and southern Africa - many of which depend mainly on imported cereals to feed their people - are most exposed to the impact of more expensive food, said the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Around the world plenty of people are already living with high food prices, and more will be joining them.

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26 Jun 2012

Lesotho
Food security goes from bad to worse

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— IRIN

MOHALE'S HOEK, 26 June 2012 (IRIN) - Initial estimates of the damage to Lesotho's already ailing agricultural sector - caused by a year of too much rain followed by a year of too little - suggest that an unprecedented number of small-scale farmers harvested nothing this year.

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24 Feb 2012

Lesotho
Weather extremes threaten food security

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— IRIN

MASERU, 24 February 2012 (IRIN) - Lesotho is facing a food security crisis as changing weather patterns and poverty leave some smallholder farmers with no option but to abandon farming and sell their land.

Many subsistence farmers in Lesotho are still struggling to recover from heavy rains over much of the country in December 2010 and January 2011 devastating crops and livestock

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06 Jan 2012

Angola + 9 others
Floods leave Angolan returnees stranded

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— IRIN

JOHANNESBURG, 6 January 2012 (IRIN) - Several thousand Angolan returnees from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are stranded by floods in northeastern Angola. They are among the first casualties of what promises to be a very wet rainy season in parts of southern Africa.

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29 Dec 2011

Swaziland + 6 others
Southern Africa: Pick of the year 2011

Report
— IRIN

JOHANNESBURG, 29 December 2011 (IRIN) - In 2011 the global economic crisis combined with poor governance, financial mismanagement and unpredictable rainfall to push several southern African countries to the point of crisis. Others responded to rising unemployment and increased pressure on national budgets by hardening their attitude towards immigrants and closing their borders to asylum-seekers. IRIN covered developments from all over the region, but the following stories consistently grabbed headlines:

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01 Dec 2011

Lesotho
Pastoralists fear land "modernization" act

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— IRIN

MASERU, 1 December 2011 (IRIN) - Livestock herders in Lesotho are suspicious of the government's motives for "modernizing" the land tenure system, fearing it will bring about a radical change in their way of life and deprive them of their birthright to land.

"This land act is not for us, it's for people sitting in the highest seats of government and in the fancy chairs in the city," Khotso Lehloka, secretary general of the Lesotho Herders Association (LHA), which represents between 17,000 and 20,000 livestock herders, told IRIN.

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18 Nov 2011

World + 15 others
Africa: Sub-Saharan sanitation targets "two centuries away"

Report
— IRIN

LONDON, 18 November 2011 (IRIN) - It will take two centuries for sub-Saharan Africa to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, according to NGO WaterAid, which calls on national leaders to commit 3.5 percent of their annual budget to the sector. [http://www.wateraid.org/ ]

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11 Nov 2011

Lesotho
Dam-building continues despite controversy

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— IRIN

MASERU, 11 November 2011 (IRIN) - The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) is building a third major dam, despite concerns about the welfare of thousands of villagers who lost their homes or land after the first dams were built in return for what many feel is inadequate compensation.

"Lesotho continues to sell natural resources that their own people need," said Mabusetsa Lenka, head of the water, justice and environmental programmes at Transformation Resource Centre (TRC) a human rights and social justice NGO based in the capital, Maseru.

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03 Oct 2011

Lesotho
Public health services in decline

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— IRIN

MASERU, 3 October 2011 (IRIN) - Matebello Makhanya* left her village of Ramabanta early in the morning and travelled 60km to Maseru, Lesotho's capital, in the hope of seeing a dentist at Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, the largest hospital in the country - only to be told that the hospital was about to be closed and dental services were no longer provided there.

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22 Feb 2011

Lesotho
Lesotho: Better coordination could save lives of mothers

Report
— IRIN
THABA-TSEKA, 22 February 2011 (IRIN) - A new joint programme is changing the way the Lesotho government and its development partners deliver aid by getting different government departments, UN agencies and civil society organizations working together to help mothers and their families.

Tens of thousands of Basotho already depend on food and agricultural assistance as well as free HIV/AIDS treatment, but the country is no closer to achieving a number of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and progress on some has reversed.

Over half the population lives in extreme

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18 Feb 2011

Lesotho
Lesotho: Learning to do more with less

Report
— IRIN
MASERU, 18 February 2011 (IRIN) - The Lesotho government has warned its citizens to prepare for a difficult year ahead as the tiny, land-locked country absorbs the effects of the global economic slowdown, including a sharp decline in crucial revenue from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU).

For years, Lesotho has depended on receipts from SACU - a 100-year-old customs union made up of Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho - for up to 60 percent of its budget.

The global economic crisis saw Lesotho's

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15 Feb 2011

Lesotho
Lesotho: Floods take heavy toll

Report
— IRIN
THABA-TSEKA, 15 February 2011 (IRIN) - From a distance, the fields of maize that cover almost every hillside in Lesotho's Thaba-Tseka District look green and lush. On closer inspection, the plants have a sickly yellowish hue and the heads of corn that should be ripening in time for the April harvest are nowhere to be seen.

For most of the farmers in this remote, mountainous district, and in many other parts of Lesotho, there will be no harvest this season. Heavy rains which started in December and are expected to continue through much of February have washed away top soil and nutrients

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10 Feb 2011

Botswana + 5 others
Southern Africa: Risk of food insecurity in wake of floods

Report
— IRIN
JOHANNESBURG, 10 February 2011 (IRIN) - Above average rainfall across many parts of Southern Africa is prompting concern "about the food security of the affected population in the poorer parts of the sub-region over the coming months," the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a new report.

"With the rainy season still only halfway through, and with the cyclone season [in the Indian Ocean] due to peak in February, several agricultural areas along the rivers in southern African countries remain at high risk of flooding, including portions of

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14 Jan 2011

South Africa + 4 others
In Brief: Flood warnings for Southern Africa

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— IRIN
JOHANNESBURG, 14 January 2011 (IRIN) - As heavy rains continue to pound parts of South Africa, the meteorological bureau has warned that there was a "high risk of floods" in the central and northeastern parts of the country over the next few days.

The government announced that the army was on standby as the water levels rose to dangerous levels in South Africa's biggest river, the Orange.

The river rises in the Drakensberg Mountains in the eastern part of the country near Lesotho and flows westwards across the country and along the border with southern Namibia before emptying

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13 Jan 2011

Lesotho + 2 others
SOUTH AFRICA: Too much maize

Report
— IRIN
JOHANNESBURG, 13 January 2011 (IRIN) - After a record maize harvest, a bid by South African farmers to form a pool to export the surplus - enough to feed its food insecure neighbours, Swaziland and Lesotho, for several years - has raised questions about the future of the crop and the manufacture of biofuel.

The country's Competition Commission rejected the bid on 11 January. "We wanted to start a debate in the country. Surpluses of this magnitude are unusual; food prices are going up globally. We have suggested the farmers consider storing the surplus,"

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18 Aug 2010

Botswana + 4 others
LESOTHO-SWAZILAND: A customs union to prevent failed states

Report
— IRIN
MBABANE, 18 August 2010 (IRIN) - Increasing strains on a century-old, five-nation southern African customs union is raising questions as to whether the sovereignty of its poorest members - Lesotho and Swaziland - is sustainable, considering their burden of HIV/AIDS and the global economic slowdown, among other factors.

The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) - the world's oldest, comprising Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland - applies a common set of tariffs and disproportionately distributes the revenue to member states, providing a lifeline that ensures

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