He was in the capital of the Mountain Kingdom last week when police and soldiers, who’ve been at loggerheads since a coup attempt three weeks ago, exchanged fire

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s started his facilitation in Lesotho by seeing King Letsie III and holding meetings with political actors including Prime Minister Tom Thabana, members of his coalition government and leaders of opposition parties.

He’s supported by a team from the regional SADC group.

Their goal is get Lesotho back on the constitutional path by holding elections this year.

That’s two years before expiry of the mandate of the current parliament that been shuttered since June.

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