Masire-Mwamba leads Lesotho election observer team

Masire-Mwamba
Masire-Mwamba

Former Commonwealth deputy secretary general, Mmasekgoa Masire-Mwamba has joined regional and international observers in Lesotho ahead of the contentious general election set for the weekend in the mountain kingdom.

Lesotho’s prime minister, Pakalitha Mosisili called the snap election in March after that country’s Parliament passed a motion of no confidence in him, the latest development in a period of turbulence in the troubled country.

Masire-Mwamba, who is also the former Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority CEO, is leading a team of three Commonwealth observers from Ghana, Swaziland and the United Kingdom, who are also supported by three staffers from the Commonwealth Secretariat.

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