Snapshot: Hills and water, Lesotho
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Lesotho votes in election with political crisis still unresolved
Maseru, Lesotho Reuters Lesotho citizens were due to vote in an election on Friday, after years of political instability that the southern African mountain kingdom’s lawmakers have yet to resolve. The election will go ahead despite a deadlock in parliament on a whole gamut of major constitutional reforms that were meant to be enacted ahead […]
Pollution killing nine million people a year, Africa hardest hit – study
Reuters Worsening outdoor air pollution and toxic lead poisoning have kept global deaths from environmental contamination at an estimated nine million per year since 2015 – countering modest progress made in tackling pollution elsewhere, a team of scientists reported Tuesday. Air pollution from industry processes along with urbanisation drove a seven per cent increase in […]
SNAPSHOT: MOUNTAINS IN LESOTHO
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Levis and Wrangler vow to protect women making jeans from sexual abuse
Nairobi, KenyaThomson Reuters Foundation Three major US brands vowed to crack down on abuse in Lesotho factories making their jeans on Thursday after an investigation found women were forced into sex to keep their jobs. Levi Strauss & Co, Kontoor Brands – which owns Wrangler and Lee jeans – and The Children’s Place signed agreements […]
Climate shocks threaten gains against HIV in Africa, researchers say
Thomson Reuters Foundation Teenage girls growing up in areas hit by harsh drought and other climate shocks in Lesotho are more likely to drop out of school, start having sex earlier and contract HIV, researchers said. In a study looking at the link between climate change and HIV infection since antiretroviral treatment drugs became widely […]