Lesotho

Acres International Ltd., one of the great names in Canadian engineering, is nearing the end of a criminal trial in an impoverished African kingdom on charges that could stain its reputation. Acres is accused of bribing the former head of one of Africa's biggest public projects, a system of dams and tunnels to divert water from Lesotho's mountains to thirsty South African cities and generate electricity in the process. Acres maintains it is innocent of bribery.

Lesotho has one of the highest HIV/AIDS infection rates in the world, yet prevention and treatment programmes are only just getting off the ground. UNAIDS associate country programme advisor Ludo Bok told PlusNews the impoverished mountain kingdom was still in the early stages of responding to the pandemic, but had a prevalence rate of between 31 and 34 percent.

With only a month to go before elections, Prime Minister Mosisili has finally conceded and officially announced a state of famine in the country, after numerous attempts of subsidies and counter productive initiatives to curb the serious threat of cereal crop deficit in Lesotho.

The POSITIVE ACTION Society in Lesotho, a small Mountain Kingdom in Southern Africa, is experiencing a dramatic increase in HIV/AIDS infection rates. Latest published figures show that over 42% of pregnant women in the capital Maseru are testing HIV positive and 65% of patients seeking treatment for Sexually Transmitted Infections are also testing HIV positive.

We at the POSITIVE ACTION Society are a group of infected and affected people trying to make a positive impact in regards of ...read more

With Lesotho's elections set for 25 May the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is focusing on conflict resolution initiatives to avoid a recurrence of the unrest that followed 1998's poll.

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