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A diamond millionaire who scored a stunning breakthrough in nationwide elections in Lesotho last week announced Tuesday that he would head a three-party coalition government.

Coalition partners in new government are Alliance for Democrats and Movement for Economic Change - Anadolu Agency

Lesotho’s businessman-turned-politician Sam Matekane of the Revolution for Prosperity party is set to become the southern African country’s next prime minister after cobbling together a coalition. Matekane, 64, announced the new three-party coalition Tuesday in the capital, Maseru. His party will team up with two smaller parties, the Alliance of Democrats and the Movement for Economic Change parties, to secure the parliamentary majority needed to form a government. Matekane, whose party was ...

Nelson Chamisa OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa commended the upset election victory in Lesotho by a newly formed

Lesotho business mogul Sam Matekane’s upstart party, Revolution for Prosperity, has won 56 of the 120 constituencies in the general elections

MASERU, Lesotho (AP) -- Lesotho's businessman-turned-politician Sam Matekane is set to become the southern African country's next prime minister after

Elections have tossed out governments and been a catalyst for coalitions. They have also been a means of expressing people’s disquiet on growing corruption, and an opportunity to extort something from politicians every five years. But until now, all the political games have made little improvem...

By Marafaele Mohloboli MASERU (Reuters) - A Lesotho party led by a diamond magnate won the most seats in last weeks election, but fell short of an overall majority, the election commission said on Monday, raising the prospect of more political gridlock. The populist Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) party emerged as the single biggest party with 56 seats, but now needs to court other groups to control the southern African mountain kingdoms 120-member parliament. Should RFP, formed by wealthy busin...

MASERU (Reuters) - A Lesotho party led by a diamond magnate won the most seats in last week's election, but fell short of an overall majority, the election commission said on Monday, raising the prospect of more political gridlock.

Lesotho business mogul Sam Matekane's upstart party, Revolution for Prosperity, has won 56 of the 120 constituencies in the general elections