An estimated 725 000 Basotho – around a third of the country's population – will need humanitarian assistance as a food crisis unfolds in the mountain kingdom. This is the result of two consecutive ...

Lesotho is one of the least developed countries in southern Africa and has a precarious food security balance. Almost all of its main staple food of maize is produced within a single climatic region ...

A programme designed to feed more than 36,000 learners at 200 schools in Lesotho will now end after abrupt cuts by the US Department of Agriculture. The Lesotho government says it's own food programme ...

Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Lesotho has urgent need of international aid to avoid a serious food shortage caused by rising cereals prices since the principal harvest was destroyed by one of the worst ...

Maseru- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a contribution of JPY 200 million (approximately US$1.36 million) from the Government of Japan to support the national school ...

Farmers in the Free State are spending half a million rands on security because border protection is a shambles and it’s worse since a food crisis began in Lesotho. The farmers are calling for ...

The impoverished African kingdom of Lesotho has declared an official food crisis after bad harvests left more than 400 000 people in need of food aid, a United Nations agency said. The United Nations’ ...

Seen as food for the poor, traditional Basotho dishes aren't as popular in Lesotho as their Italian or American counterparts. As a result, the country's food culture is rapidly disappearing. How does ...

Lesotho needs urgent international assistance to avert a major food crisis because of high cereal prices after this year’s main cereal harvest was ravaged by one of the worst droughts in 30 years, ...

UNITED NATIONS, June 12 (UPI) -- A report by two U.N. agencies says 410,000 people in Lesotho face food shortages due to the country's most severe drought in 30 years. The report, issued Tuesday by ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. The declaration in August of a food emergency by small landlocked Lesotho went fairly ...