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Minister Of Foreign Affairs Of Lesotho
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Relations is a cabinet ministry of Lesotho in charge of conducting and designing the foreign relations of the country. Organization and structure The ministry seeks to establish, promote and develop good relations between Lesotho and the International Community for the advancement and enhancement of Lesotho's prosperity and for the protection of its sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity. The ministry has the following departments: Directorate of Protocol, Directorate of Political Affairs, Africa and the Middle East, Directorate of Europe and the Americas, Directorate of Asia, far East and the Pacific, Directorate of Economic and International Organizations, Directorate of Legal Affairs and Directorate of Consular Affairs. The current Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Relations is 'Matšepo Ramakoae. List of ministers This is a list of Ministers of Foreign Affairs and International Relations of Lesotho: ...
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Lesotho
Lesotho ( ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a country landlocked country, landlocked as an Enclave and exclave, enclave in South Africa. It is situated in the Maloti Mountains and contains the Thabana Ntlenyana, highest mountains in Southern Africa. It has an area of over and has a population of about million. It was previously the British Crown colony of Basutoland, which declared independence from the United Kingdom on 4 October 1966. It is a fully sovereign state and is a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth of Nations, the African Union, and the Southern African Development Community. The name ''Lesotho'' roughly translates to "land of the Sotho". History Basutoland Basutoland emerged as a single body politic, polity under King Moshoeshoe I in 1822. Moshoeshoe, a son of Mokhachane, a minor tribal chief, chief of the Bakoteli lineage, formed his own clan and became a chief around 1804. Between 1820 and 1823, he and his followers settled at the Buth ...
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Political Organisations Based In Lesotho
Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is referred to as political science. It may be used positively in the context of a "political solution" which is compromising and nonviolent, or descriptively as "the art or science of government", but also often carries a negative connotation.. The concept has been defined in various ways, and different approaches have fundamentally differing views on whether it should be used extensively or limitedly, empirically or normatively, and on whether conflict or co-operation is more essential to it. A variety of methods are deployed in politics, which include promoting one's own political views among people, negotiation with other political subjects, making laws, and exercising internal and external force, including w ...
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Politics Of Lesotho
Politics of Lesotho takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic constitutional monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister of Lesotho is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of Parliament, the Senate and the National Assembly. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. Executive branch , King , Letsie III , , 7 February 1996 , - , Prime Minister , Sam Matekane , Revolution for Prosperity , 28 October 2022 The Lesotho Government is a constitutional monarchy. The Prime Minister, Sam Matekane, is head of government and has executive authority. The King serves a largely ceremonial function; he no longer possesses any executive authority and is proscribed from actively participating in political initiatives. According to the constitution, the leader of the majority party in the assembly automatically be ...
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List Of Diplomatic Missions In Lesotho
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Lesotho. At present, the capital city of Maseru hosts five embassies. Embassies and High Commissions in Maseru * * * * * * Other missions or delegations in Maseru * (Delegation) Non-resident embassies/high commissions Resident in Pretoria unless otherwise noted * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (New Delhi) * * (New Delhi) * * (Valletta) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (Nairobi) * * * * * *\ * * * * * * * * * * * * Closed missions References External linksUS Dept. of State Background Notes on Lesotho {{Africa topic, List of diplomatic missions in, countries_only=yes Diplomatic missions Lesotho Diplomatic missions A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually deno ...
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Lesego Makgothi
Lesego Calayel Makgothi (born 23 February 1965, Maseru) is a Lesotho diplomat who has served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between cou ... of the Kingdom of Lesotho from 2017 to 2020. Foreign minister In 2017 he negotiated the arrival of foreign peacekeepers in Lesotho. In February 2019, Makgothi met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and spoke on expanding relations between Lesotho and Russia.Klomegah, Kester Kenn (18 February 2019)Russia wants to bolster economic ties with Lesotho ''The Exchange''. External linksOfficial government profile References Living people 1965 births People from Maseru Foreign Ministers of Lesotho Lesotho diplomats {{Lesotho-politician-stub ...
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Tlohang Sekhamane
Tlohang Sekhamane is a politician from Lesotho who is serving as the Speaker of the National Assembly In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the rep ... and a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Relations. Personal life He was born in 30 May 1955 in Mokhotlong District. References Living people Lesotho politicians 1955 births People from Mokhotlong District Foreign Ministers of Lesotho {{Lesotho-politician-stub Speakers of the National Assembly (Lesotho) ...
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Monyane Moleleki
Monyane Moleleki (born 5 January 1951) is a Mosotho politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Lesotho, as well as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, from 2017 to 2020. As a leading figure in the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), Moleleki was Minister of Natural Resources from 1993 to 1994, Minister of Information from 1996 to 1998, Minister of Natural Resources from 1998 to 2004, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2004 to 2007, and Minister of Natural Resources from 2007 to 2012. After breaking with the LCD, Moleleki served as Deputy Leader of the Democratic Congress and was Minister of Police from 2015 to 2016. He left the Democratic Congress and launched a new party, the Alliance of Democrats, in 2017. Moleleki has three children, named; Limpho Moleleki, Mohlomi Moleleki and Liepollo Moleleki, as well as two grand-children. Political career Appointed to the government as Minister of National Resources in 1993, Moleleki was briefly kidnapped along with three other minis ...
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Mohlabi Tsekoa
Mohlabi Kenneth Tsekoa (born 13 August 1945Profile at Lesotho government site
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) is a Lesotho politician who was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lesotho from 2007 to 2015. He served in the Cabinet beginning in July 2001, first as , then as Foreign Minister, Minister of Education, and starting in March 2007 as Foreign Minister again.
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Kelebone Maope
Kelebone Albert Maope (born 1945) is a politician from Lesotho. He served in the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) and Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) governments during the 1990s before splitting from the LCD in 2001 to form his own party, the Lesotho People's Congress (LPC). Political career As a member of the BCP, Maope served as Attorney General and Minister of Justice under the military regime that ruled Lesotho from 1986 to 1993. He was also Minister of Justice in the BCP government that took office in 1993. On April 14, 1994, he was briefly kidnapped along with three other ministers by soldiers; a fifth minister, Deputy Prime Minister Selometsi Baholo, was killed in this incident. Maope served as Minister of Justice until he was named Minister of Foreign Affairs in a cabinet reshuffle on July 20, 1995. On February 21, 1998 he was elected Deputy Leader of the new ruling party, the LCD, which had been formed in 1997. He remained in this position until June 1998, when he w ...
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Mpho Malie
Mpho Skeef (pronounced /mpÊ°o skʲɪəf/), known by her stage name of Mpho, is a South African-born British singer-songwriter based in London. Early and personal life Skeef was born during the apartheid regime in South Africa to Sipho Mabuse and Mary Edwards. Her first name is a SeSotho word meaning "gift". Mpho spent her first birthday imprisoned in Caledon Square, Cape Town with her mother who was an anti-apartheid campaigner. Daily Record â€Rising star MPHO could be Britain's answer to Beyonce25 June 2009 By Bev Lyons She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of four and was brought up in Stockwell, Clapham and Brixton by her mother and her stepfather, Eugene Skeef. She attended the BRIT School in Croydon. Career Mpho began working in the music industry in 2004, initially as a backing vocalist for artists such as Ms Dynamite, Natasha Bedingfield, Ty, Terri Walker, Skinnyman, Rodney P, and Spacek. She was a lead vocalist on the Bugz in the Attic single "Booty La La", ...
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