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Behind Lesotho’s instability 

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While many people especially in Lesotho were slightly relived after the killing of some of the leading trouble makers at the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Colonel Tefo Hashatsi and Brigadier Bulane Sechele, it is not yet over as former Army Commander Kamoli still has the grip of the army. Highly placed sources within the LDF has revealed that it will only take an overhaul of the army top brass to bring stability to the mountainous kingdom as Kamoli-Mosisili axis had ensured that all the top security forces top brass belong to them. Around August last year, when Prime Minister Phakalitha Mosisili realised that he was losing grip of government and had fallen out with his ally Monyane Moleleki who went to form his own party, he began creating a power layer for himself. In September last year the National Security Services (NSS) Director General, Colonel Tumo Lekhooa briefed both Mosisili and Kamoli that chances of All Basotho Congress (ABC) winning the 2017 June snap elections was very minimal if not naught. He recommended that Mosisili use the 2012 strategy in which he promoted those who are allied to him, especially in the military and police force. In 2012 when Mosisili…

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