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Hoolo 'Nyane, Head of Department, Public and Environmental Law Department, University of Limpopo

Lesotho due to hold elections despite lack of progress on key political reforms

A woman votes in Lesotho's 2017 national election. New elections are due in October. Gianluigi Guercia/AFP via Gettty Images

Lesotho is due to hold national elections in mid-October. The polls were expected to be held under a new constitutional regime resulting from a reform process that started in 2012. But, the process has not yielded much fruit.

There’s widespread consensus – locally and internationally – that the constitutional kingdom of about 2.2 million must reform its political system to overcome recurrent political instability. But successive governments have failed to bring about the necessary changes.

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