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	Help Lesotho - Home
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		Creating a future with those who are left!
		The tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho, entirely surrounded by South Africa, has the 3rd highest incidence of HIV/AIDS in the world, leaving more that 1/3 of the children in Lesotho are orphaned and many more vulnerable.
	www.helplesotho.ca (113 words)

	Lesotho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The present Lesotho emerged as a single polity (state) under a Paramount chief in 1822; it was recognized by Britain on 13 December 1843.
		Lesotho's economy is based on exports of water and electricity sold to South Africa, manufacturing, agriculture, livestock, and to some extent the earnings of laborers employed in South Africa.
		Lesotho is in the process or formulating an Action Programme on the Elmination of Child Labour, which is expected to be adopted in the period 2006-2007.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lesotho (2555 words)

	Lesotho - Wikitravel
		Lesotho is totally surrounded by South Africa and is making a reputation for itself as a fantastic adventure holiday destination.
		Lesotho has a history as a very safe, peaceful and welcoming country, and as such locals and the government are outraged at these attacks, and the police are usually very efficient and helpful when these crimes occur.
		Lesotho is at a very high altitude, and the air is very thin especially in the Highlands, be warned that you may suffer from altitude sickness when you first arrive.
	wikitravel.org /en/Lesotho (2780 words)

	Lesotho: travel information, accommodation, safaris, Map, tours..
		Lesotho is known as the "kingdom in the sky" and whether you're trekking by pony or by foot, you will be able to see spectacular mountain scenery.
		Lesotho is a magical country where music and dance feature strongly in all rituals as well as everyday life.
		If you have great photos of Lesotho which you would be willing to contribute to a Lesotho photo gallery, we would like to hear from you at content@go2africa.com.
	www.go2africa.com /lesotho (421 words)

	Lesotho (05/06)
		Lesotho's mission to the United Nations is located at 204 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016 (tel: 212-661-1690).
		Lesotho's economy is based on water and electricity sold to South Africa, manufacturing, earnings from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), agriculture, livestock, and to some extent earnings of laborers employed in South Africa.
		Lesotho is a member of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) in which tariffs have been eliminated on the trade of goods with other member countries, which include Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2831.htm (2841 words)

	Lesotho
		Lesotho is also known as the Mountain Kingdom and has two main mountain ranges: the Drakensberg, which has the highest mountain in southern Africa, and the Maluti.
		Lesotho then joined with two other small countries, Botswana and Swaziland, to sponsor the university jointly under the name of the National University of Lesotho.
		Lesotho regained independence in 1966, and functioned as a multi-party democracy from independence until 1986, when a military regime took power.
	us-africa.tripod.com /leseto.html (990 words)

	Lesotho
		Lesotho (formerly Basutoland) was constituted a native state under British protection by a treaty signed with the native chief Moshoeshoe in 1843.
		Lesotho faces one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world, leading some demographers to predict that the country's population will begin declining in several years if current trends continue.
		Lesotho: Economy - Economy All land in Lesotho is held by the king in trust for the Sotho nation and is apportioned on...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107714.html (636 words)

	An MBendi Profile: An MBendi Country Profile for Lesotho including economic and travel overviews and directories of ...
		Lesotho is a landlocked independent republic with a democratic government situated within the borders of South Africa and forms part of the Southern African region.
		The Lesotho oil industry is one of the key elements in the economy of the country.
		Lesotho is a member of the Southern Africa Customs Union with Botswana, South Africa, Namibia and Swaziland, and there are generally no import restrictions on goods moving between the five countries and imports from countries outside the SACU are usually licensed in conformity with South Africa's import regulations.
	www.mbendi.co.za /land/af/le/p0005.htm (794 words)

	Travel Advice for Lesotho - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
		Lesotho's last two elections have been peaceful and the political situation is mostly stable.
		When you are in Lesotho, be aware that local laws and penalties, including ones that appear harsh by Australian standards, do apply to you.
		If you are travelling to Lesotho, whatever the reason and however long you'll be there, we encourage you to register with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
	www.smartraveller.gov.au /zw-cgi/view/Advice/Lesotho (1188 words)

	Index of Economic Freedom 2006 - Lesotho
		Lesotho's agricultural sector is small as a percentage of GDP, but over 20 percent of the population is engaged in subsistence agriculture.
		The United States is now Lesotho's main export market, primarily because of increased textile exports, but the January 2005 expiration of textile quotas under the Multi-Fiber Arrangement has forced Lesotho to compete with low-cost Asian producers, and this could undermine the textile sector.
		Lesotho's fiscal burden of government score is 0.7 point better this year, and its government intervention score is 1 point better.
	www.heritage.org /research/features/index/country.cfm?id=Lesotho (1033 words)

	Lesotho on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		LESOTHO [Lesotho], officially Kingdom of Lesotho, kingdom (2005 est.
		San (Bushmen), who were the region's earliest known inhabitants, were supplanted several centuries prior to colonization by various Bantu-speaking peoples, including those that came to be the Sotho and the Zulu.
		The late Quaternary landscape at Sehonghong in the Lesotho highlands, southern Africa.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Lesotho.asp (1129 words)

	Lesotho
		Geographically, Lesotho is an extremely mountainous developing country completely surrounded by the country of South Africa.
		Lesotho has a high level of crime and foreigners are frequently targeted, robbed and sometimes killed.
		Lesotho’s high unemployment rate, aggravated by the return of large numbers of unemployed miners from South Africa, and the ongoing effects of social upheaval due to high HIV/AIDS rates of infection, have contributed to an increasing number of armed robberies, break-ins, and incidents of carjacking.
	travel.state.gov /travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_949.html (1730 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Country profiles \| Country profile: Lesotho
		The Kingdom of Lesotho is made up mostly of highlands where many of the villages can be reached only on horseback, by foot or light aircraft.
		Lesotho has one of the world's highest rates of HIV-Aids infection.
		His Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) won a majority in the 120-seat parliament.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1063291.stm (604 words)

	Lesotho Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		Lesotho's first national park is remote and rugged - this sense of separation from the rest of the world is the main attraction.
		Although shunted to and from British and Boer control for almost 200 years, Lesotho's path to self-rule was comparatively smooth.
		Landlocked by South Africa, but distanced from it by huge mountain ranges, Lesotho is an often-surprising combination of rapidly-developing modernity and ancient culture.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/africa/lesotho (157 words)

	Lesotho on the Internet
		In Lesotho works with NGOs to ensure that the negative impacts of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project on the environment and communities are minimized.
		"an English Medium School of Lesotho [grades 6-12], which opened in1977 in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Lesotho Ministry of Education." "The school community is composed of more than 35 different nationalities." Maintains the Selibeng Art and Cultural Centre.
		A report on the inaugural meeting of the Lesotho Mountain Research Group held at Malealea Lodge, Lesotho 28-29 September 1996.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/leso.html (1807 words)

	International Rivers Network: Lesotho
		The multi–billion project is designed to divert water from the Orange River to South Africa’s the urban and industrial Gauteng region through a series of dams and tunnels blasted through the mountains.
		Download a 2001 report to learn more about the problems with resettlement and restoration of livelihoods for those whose lands were submerged by this World Bank project.
		The LHWP has also been plagued by corruption, which has resulted in convictions in a Lesotho court of some of the world’s largest dam–construction and engineering firms.
	www.irn.org /programs/lesotho (322 words)

	Lesotho Detail @ HillCountryArts.com (Hill Country Arts) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Kingdom of Lesotho, or simply Lesotho, is a country in southern Africa.
		The LCD has 79 of the 80 constituency-based seats.
		Pakalitha Mosisili ran for election and won under the LCD taking the ideas of English Government and that of American Government.
	www.hillcountryarts.com /encyclopedia/Lesotho (2009 words)

	Lesotho - Africas Mountain Kingdom.
		Lesotho’s formidable terrain is created by the sheer walls of the Drakensberg and Maluti mountains, which give sanctuary to a unique developing nation.
		The entire country of Lesotho lies 1000m above sea level and boasts Thabana-Ntlenyana, at 3482m, the highest peak in Africa south of Kilimanjaro.
		Winter in Lesotho is from June to August, September to April is spring and summer with beautiful warm sunny days and occasional rain.
	www.drakensberg-tourism.com /lesotho.html (298 words)

	WTO \| Lesotho - Member information
		Lesotho has been a member of WTO since 31 May 1995.
		Lesotho's Uruguay Round goods schedules (zip format, 228 KB)
		Lesotho is included in TPRs of the Southern African Customs Union — SACU
	www.wto.org /english/thewto_e/countries_e/lesotho_e.htm (206 words)

	Lesotho
		The emblem size is not quite defined, but the vertical axis is to be along line 1/5 of the flag length from the hoist.
		The light brown shield is situated on the white half of the flag, with its centre line one fifth (1/5) of the distance from the hoist.
		The Royal Lesotho Defense Force-Air Squadron was founded in 1978 as the Police Air Wing.
	flagspot.net /flags/ls.html (1683 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Lesotho (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Small, landlocked, and mountainous, Lesotho relies on remittances from miners employed in South Africa and customs duties from the Southern Africa Customs Union for the majority of government revenue.
		The latter has grown significantly, mainly due to Lesotho qualifying for the trade benefits contained in the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act.
		Lesotho has signed an Interim Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility with the IMF.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/lt.html (940 words)

	Lesotho, Africa - Travel Guide and Tourist Information
		Tributaries of the Caledon River, which forms the country's western border, also rise here.
		This is pretty much everything a guide book should be; plenty of detail on the mainstream stuff (where to stay and eat in Nairobi, how to organise a safari in the Maasai Mara), but plenty also on the areas off the beaten track.
		The best recomendation I can give this book is that it quite simply made our holiday much more enjoyable than it would have been (a reader)
	www.africaguide.com /country/lesotho (289 words)

	allAfrica.com: Lesotho
		NOTHING else will matter in Maseru when the Lesotho national team hosts Bafana Bafana in an international soccer friendly at the Setsoto stadium tonight.
		THE Lesotho Football Federation (LeFA) is courting Zambia for an international friendly as part of both countries' preparations ahead of the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying rounds starting in September.
		As the Lesotho government prepares to launch a 'Know your HIV status' campaign, a shortage of qualified healthcare workers threatens to derail plans to increase access to AIDS treatment in the mountain kingdom.
	allafrica.com /lesotho (279 words)

	Lesotho and the IMF -- Page 1 of 3 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Listed below are items related to Lesotho, in reverse chronological order (you can also view items by category).
		On behalf of: Angola, Burundi, Botswana, The State of Eritrea, The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, The Gambia, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Republic of Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Kingdom of Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
		February 05, 2004 -- Lesotho: 2003 Article IV Consultation, Fifth Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and Requests for Waiver of Performance Criteria and Extension of Arrangement--Staff Report; Public Information Notice and Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Lesotho.
	www.imf.org /external/country/LSO (605 words)

	NationMaster.com - Detailed Nation Profile: Lesotho
		Basutoland was renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho upon independence from the UK in 1966.
		King MOSHOESHOE was exiled in 1990, but returned to Lesotho in 1992 and reinstated in 1995.
		your age thing for lesotho sux because everywhere it says that people die (on average) when they get to around gthe age of 20 (something)
	www.nationmaster.com /country/lt (459 words)

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