NetQuantum :: World :: Français :: Régional :: Afrique :: Lesotho ::

• Oprah sued for defamation by ex-school head
Her trial is scheduled to resume later this month in South Africa. Mzamane, a native of Teyateneneng, Lesotho, came to the United States for college and graduate school. She previously held a leadership post at the Germantown Friends School, a Quaker ...
• Developing nations lack medical workers
... and she can hardly remember what she did with a patient yesterday ... and yet she still runs the clinic because there is no one willing to work there,” said Dr Pheello Lethola, an HIV and TB specialist in the southern African country of Lesotho ...
• News photos
Stopping HIV at birth Dec. 2007: Three HIV-positive mothers in the African nation of Lesotho share their concerns about passing the deadly HIV virus to their children.
• Mine yields one of world's largest diamonds
LONDON - Miners in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho have found one of the world's largest diamonds, a near-flawless white gem weighing nearly 500 carats, mining group Gem Diamonds said on Sunday. The diamond was discovered in the Letseng Mine ...
• Africa: Miners
By comparison, the infamous Hope Diamond that is renowned for the misfortunes it brought on its various owners seems paltry, weighing in at a mere 45.42 carats. The “Lesotho Promise” – at 603 carats, the biggest diamond discovery in 13 years ...