Lesotho seeks SADC intervention amidst COVID-19 pandemic

This morning the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's Special Envoy to Lesotho, Jeff Radebe jetted into Gaborone to brief President Mokgweetsi Masisi in his capacity as the incoming chairperson of SADC’s Politics, Defence and Security organ about the Lesotho situation. Yesterday Radebe was in Harare, Zimbabwe to brief President Emerson Mnangagwa who is the current chairperson of the organ.

Embattled Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane last week surprisingly ordered the army to be deployed to restore law and order and to take action against individuals and institutions, which he said, were undermining the rule of law, his government and democracy.