{"id":10840,"date":"2012-05-29T22:16:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/lesotho-pm-misses-poll-victory-soldiers-in-capital\/"},"modified":"2012-05-29T22:16:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:16:20","slug":"lesotho-pm-misses-poll-victory-soldiers-in-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/lesotho-pm-misses-poll-victory-soldiers-in-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho PM misses poll victory, soldiers in capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Soldiers seen on streets of capital<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Fears of repeat of 1998 unrest in &#8220;world&#8217;s highest<br \/>\ncountry&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* S.Africa, Botswana sent in troops 14 years ago<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Marafaele Mohloboli<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MASERU, May 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Soldiers deployed in Lesotho&#8217;s<br \/>\ncapital on Tuesday after an inconclusive weekend election that<br \/>\nhas left many in the African highland kingdom fearing a repeat<br \/>\nof the violence that followed a disputed poll in 1998.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili, in charge of the<br \/>\nlandlocked nation of 2 million for the past 14 years, emerged<br \/>\nfrom Saturday&#8217;s election as the most powerful player in<br \/>\nparliament but has fallen short of an outright majority.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Three opposition parties unveiled an anti-Mosisili<br \/>\ncoalition, setting the stage for a rerun of 1998, when post-poll<br \/>\nwrangling led to weeks of unrest that ultimately triggered<br \/>\nmilitary intervention by neighbouring South Africa and Botswana<br \/>\nto restore order.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At least 58 locals and eight South African soldiers died in<br \/>\nthat fighting and large parts of Maseru were damaged.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The opposition is trying to announce that it has formed a<br \/>\ncoalition against Mosisili because they have sufficient numbers<br \/>\nto form a government,&#8221; said Hoolo &#8216;Nyane, director of the<br \/>\nTransformation Resource Centre, a Maseru think-tank.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Soldiers seen on streets of capital * Fears of repeat of 1998 unrest in &#8220;world&#8217;s highest country&#8221; * S.Africa, Botswana sent in troops 14 years ago By Marafaele Mohloboli MASERU, May 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Soldiers deployed in Lesotho&#8217;s capital on Tuesday after an inconclusive weekend election that has left many in the African highland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}