An estimated 725 000 Basotho – around a third of the country's population – will need humanitarian assistance as a food crisis unfolds in the mountain kingdom. This is the result of two consecutive ...

Lesotho is one of the least developed countries in southern Africa and has a precarious food security balance. Almost all of its main staple food of maize is produced within a single climatic region ...

Maseru- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today welcomed a contribution of JPY 200 million (approximately US$1.36 million) from the Government of Japan to support the national school ...

A programme designed to feed more than 36,000 learners at 200 schools in Lesotho will now end after abrupt cuts by the US Department of Agriculture. The Lesotho government says it's own food programme ...

Rome (Agenzia Fides)- Lesotho has urgent need of international aid to avoid a serious food shortage caused by rising cereals prices since the principal harvest was destroyed by one of the worst ...

Farmers in the Free State are spending half a million rands on security because border protection is a shambles and it’s worse since a food crisis began in Lesotho. The farmers are calling for ...

Lesotho needs urgent international assistance to avert a major food crisis because of high cereal prices after this year’s main cereal harvest was ravaged by one of the worst droughts in 30 years, ...

Johannesburg - The impoverished African kingdom of Lesotho has declared an official food crisis after bad harvests left more than 400 000 people in need of food aid, said a United Nations agency. The ...

Maseru - Lesotho urgently needs 57 000 tons of food over the coming months to feed 600 000 to 700 000 people facing acute hunger as winter approaches the tiny drought-stricken country, officials said ...

As delegates at the UN food summit in Rome tackle concerns over food production, the BBC's Peter Greste visits Lesotho, one of the countries most at risk from climate change and global food and fuel ...

In the distance loom the spectacular snow-capped mountains. But there is only one thing on the minds of the villagers - and that is the looming spectre of hunger and starvation. In good years, the ...