Lesotho murder trial: Prime minister’s wife appears in court

First lady Maesaiah Thabane charged with ordering murder of her husband’s former wife amid bitter divorce.

The wife of Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane is due in court in the capital on Tuesday.

Maesaiah Thabane has been charged with masterminding the murder of her husband’s former wife in 2017.

The prime minister and his former wife had divorced acrimoniously and she had reportedly wanted to retain the privileges of the office she once had.

Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller reports.