![Maesaiah Thabane leaves the magistrate court in Maseru [Molise Molise/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/5b625ce4d86e46faa54b410c33e5b66d_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Maesaiah Thabane, wife of former PM Thomas Thabane, transferred to correctional facility after court revoked her bail.
Lesotho
![Thomas Thabane, left, with newly appointed Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro [Molise/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/0c0220229ee14ec5851f092cadd1695f_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Thomas Thabane’s succesor vows to usher in ‘new version’ of leadership and ‘bring back trust to the government’.
![Thabane and his then-wife Lipolelo Thabane, 58, were in the midst of a bitter divorce when she was killed in 2017 [File: Gulshan Khan/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/3f98a4e56d1841799b516055b63da1a5_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
PM faced pressure to quit over case in which he and wife are suspected of involvement in 2017 murder...
Embattled 80-year-old does not state when will he officially quit as political uncertainty grips the...
![Lesotho's health ministry said it conducted 81 COVID-19 tests on travellers from South Africa and Saudi Arabia [Molise Molise/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/84e06223a97f42d8aca9443cf76ae221_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The high-altitude kingdom surrounded by South Africa confirms first case: a national studying in Saudi Arabia.
![Thomas Thabane has been under increasing pressure to step down [File: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/d298a4483f0c439b98c9f8afd788fcdb_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
National assembly speaker says embattled prime minister will have to step down by May 22.
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Amid a deepening political crisis, embattled PM Thomas Thabane has resisted efforts to leave office immediately.
![Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane and his wife, Maesaiah Thabane [File: AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/f900f5779f38428c94fb17a949a995f1_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Rising political tension in kingdom prompted South Africa to send officials for talks aimed at calming situation.
![Following mounting calls for Thomas Thabane to step down as Lesotho's prime minister, local political actors agreed with South Africa's mediators on his resignation [File: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/d4cc4877acb745009c9c8caf2ed46b41_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
No immediate reaction by Thomas Thabane following release of statement on the back of South Africa-mediated talks.
Police chiefs say Thomas Thabane was trying to intimidate them after they implicated him in the murder of his former wife.
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Thomas Thabane, under pressure to step down, sends troops, accusing law enforcement agencies of undermining democracy.
Members of the governing All Basotho Convention party want him gone and have nominated a successor.
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Rescheduled hearing comes after Thomas Thabane missed initial court date due to a medical appointment in South Africa.
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Thomas Thabane was to be charged for killing wife but had a pre-arranged medical check-up in South Africa, aide says.