King Letsie III

Much will depend on how King Letsie III 35 years-old handles the aftermath of the present crisis...

The roots of Lesotho's 1994 crisis – unrest and unease in the security forces – have persisted and for the last six weeks under 35-year-old constitutional monarch King Letsie III the country has been in turmoil...

In office he has failed to come to terms either with the ruling African National Congress in South Africa or with King Letsie III who came definitively to the throne on the death of his father Moshoeshoe last year...