Suffering and Scavenging at the Tour de Lesotho
The Tour de Lesotho is billed as “Africa’s toughest cycling challenge”, and involves four major mountain passes and some 2100m of vertical ascent. The short version is an 84km route with “only” 1000m of elevation gain. [http://wakanaka.blogspot.com]

Philanthropy At Its Best
Logos Global Ministries has an exceptionally successful program going inside the little nation of Lesotho, Africa. Hundreds and hundreds of children are receiving such TLC through our program that it is literally keeping them alive. [http://lesothochildren.blogspot.com]

Lesotho: Govt intensifies efforts to help rape survivors
The Lesotho government is to improve medical care provided to sexual violence survivors after rape cases reported in the first three months of this year climbed to almost the total number for 2005. [www.irinnews.org]

Harry launches new charity
Sentebale which means “Forget me not” in Sesotho, the […] language of Lesotho. The prince, once dubbed the royal ‘wild child’ for his youthful drug and drink antics, said of his new charity “As far as I am concerned, I’m committed.” [http://claudette.pdpress.com]

Africa’s Kingdom in the Sky
This week we drove up to Sani Pass, which is in Southern Drakensburg, about 2-hours from Pietermaritzburg. We took a day trip hosted by the Backpacker’s lodge we were staying at that drove around Sani Pass and up into Lesotho, “Africa’s kingdom in the sky.”` Lesotho is over 2000-meters above sea level, and in order to get there from Sani Pass, you had to use a 4X4 because the roads are gravel and very steep and winedy. [www.dogooder.ca]

Lesotho Angel
Canadian Russell Armstrong, hospital administrator at the Tsepong Clinic in Lesotho, discusses the realities of the AIDS crisis in Africa. NB: There’s a video to watch. [http://despoticktock.blogspot.com]

Learning to Swim
The river wasn’t even flowing, but there were rock pools, and in one pool the size of a small car I saw the maroon dress and black sweater floating motionlessly. It must have been an elementary school girl, already dead, drowned. People watched as if it couldn’t have been helped. I cussed to myself. [www.gregalder.com]

The airport in Lesotho, South Africa
It is also super dumb to say […] the airport in Lesotho, South Africa. Where in the world is that? I hear this kind of thing a lot and it gets up my nose. Why does nobody ever say, at the airport in Zambia, Zimbabwe? Or at the airport in France, Belgium? At the airport in the USA, Mexico. At the airport in Argentina, Venezuela. At the airpot in Malaysia, Taiwan. It’s silly. I was having a translation of my papers done once when the translator (a sworn and legal one at that), said, “What’s Lesotho?” [http://sotho.blogsome.com]

European Diamonds finds 2 large gems in Lesotho
European Diamonds PLC said it discovered two large diamonds at the Liqhobong kimberlite mine in Lesotho. The gems weighed 29.2 carats and 24.3 carats. They were found less than a month after it discovered a 27.7-carat stone in the same site. Separately, the miner said it sold 16,500 carats of the Liqhobong diamonds for 691,000 usd in Antwerp recently. [www.lse.co.uk]