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Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives
Call for Papers: Utafiti is inviting you to submit your manuscript – any topic in the humanities - for consideration in the next issues.
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The seven-party coalition government led by Prime Minister Phakalitha Mosisili, which had led the country since the February 2015 general election, lost a vote of no confidence in February. This followed the breakaway from the government by Monyane Moleleke, hitherto deputy leader of Mosisili’s Democratic Congress (dc), in January, and his formation of a new party, the Alliance of Democrats (ad). Rather than resign, Mosisili advised King Letsie iii to dissolve parliament. However, in the June election that followed, the All Basotho Convention (abc) emerged as the largest party. Its leader, Tom Thabane, subsequently put together a new coalition composed of the abc, the Basotho National Party (bnp), the Reformed Congress of Lesotho (rcl) and the ad and resumed the post of prime minister, which he had held prior to the 2015 election. One of the principal tasks of the new government was seen as the implementation of reforms to the security sector. However, the assassination of the army commander, Khoantle Motsomotso, by two senior officers in September indicated that the new government would face an uphill task in removing the Lesotho Defence Force (ldf) from the political arena.