16 November 2023 by Lucia Moshoeshoe This climate-smart Banana plot retains moisture for five days. Credit: Uncensored News/ Pascalinah Kabi. According to the 2023 Global Hunger Index, Lesotho’s hunger level is a cause for alarm, standing at 35.5 percent. The country is just 15 percent away from reaching the extremely alarming [...]
9 November 2023 by Pascalinah Kabi Monekoa Mokone (84) and his 70-year-old ‘Mamotebang Mokone narrate the struggle to access portable water in their Ha Makebe village. Credit: Pascalinah Kabi. Monekoa Mokone, 84, slowly walks away from a kraal to join his wife, ‘Mamotebang, on the veranda of their house, exquisitely [...]
Soil erosion in ‘Muela underscores a larger issue – the critical problem of land degradation that Lesotho is addressing. In the era of climate change, there is an urgent need for coordinated efforts to mitigate harmful human activities that significantly contribute to land degradation, which poses a major threat to [...]
“After water, sand is the most consumed natural resource in the world. It has come to a point where sand is called ‘the new gold,’ and the indiscriminate extraction of this new gold is destroying physical and biological environments all over the world.” 27 October 2023 by Pascalinah Kabi These piles of [...]
18 October 2023 by Pascalinah Kabi Acting Director of Lesotho Meteorology Services, Mokoena France. Credit: Internet On 6 September 2023, African leaders passed a landmark Declaration that calls on the world’s largest polluters to fulfil their financial commitments to Africa. The Nairobi Declaration also calls on development partners to intentionally [...]
09 October 2023 by Pascalinah Kabi The whir of a tractor roars into life in Ha Raliile, a small village nestled in the Sehlabeng plateau in Berea. The tractor belongs to farmer and businessman Thabiso Mokone. Mokone trades in renting the tractor to other farmers in the area and, selling fresh [...]
…investment promotion agency shields Nien Hsing from water pollution exposé 10 February 2023 by Pascalinah Kabi, Billy Ntaote, Sechaba Mokhethi This is the fourth part of a five-part investigation by MNN into how Lesotho’s textile factories operate with a disregard for labour laws and with apparent impunity as tests confirm [...]
8 February 2023 by Pascalinah Kabi This is the third part of a five-part investigation by MNN into how Lesotho’s textile factories operate with a disregard for labour laws and with apparent impunity as tests confirm that factories release toxic wastewater into water courses, including the Mohokare/Caledon River. This series is supported by [...]
24 December 2022 by Pascalinah Kabi Bertha Foundation Fellow Letšeng Diamonds, Lesotho’s most lucrative mine, has awarded contracts worth M6.7 billion to MGC Mining, a company that is ultimately owned by Prime Minister Sam Matekane. The value of the contracts was disclosed in a 16-page response by Letšeng to a number [...]
13 October 2022 by Pascalinah Kabi Bertha Foundation Fellow A confidential report that flags harmful levels of toxic mining effluent in Lesotho’s key rivers feeding the Lesotho Water Highlands Project (LWHP) has raised uncomfortable questions in the government and set the cat among the pigeons in cabinet, as ministries shift the blame [...]