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'Our home': Lesotho's last cave dwellers

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An aerial view of the Kome Caves site in the district of Berea, Lesotho. The caves are mud dwellings, classified as a National Heritage Site, originally served as hideout for the Basia and a Bataung clan during the 18th centuary Lifaqane Wars and cannibalism. (Photo:Marco Longari / AFP)

KOME, Lesotho: Inside a dimly-lit mud dwelling nestled within a rocky mountain in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho, Mamotonosi Ntefane, 67, dusts off an animal skin.

Her household is among a handful of families who still inhabit the Kome Caves, a heritage site in the north of the country, first occupied about 200 years ago by local tribes seeking shelter from conflict and cannibalism.

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