{"id":23306,"date":"2020-05-19T18:40:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T16:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=23306"},"modified":"2020-05-19T18:40:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T16:40:52","slug":"lesotho-pm-thomas-thabane-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/lesotho-pm-thomas-thabane-resigns","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho PM Thomas Thabane Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Lesotho\u2019s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane resigned on Tuesday, removing the main hurdle to resolving a political crisis that engulfed the small southern African mountain kingdom late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Thabane\u2019s departure marks the end of one of Lesotho\u2019s longest political careers, one marked by exile, feuding, intrigue, tensions with the military and a political crisis that worsened when police named him as a suspect in a murder case in February.<\/p>\n<p>His own All Basotho Convention (ABC) party, opposition figures and South African mediators, had been heaping pressure on the prime minister to resign over a case in which he and his current wife are suspected of conspiring to murder his former wife nearly three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>They have both denied any involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Lesotho\u2019s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane resigned on Tuesday, removing the main hurdle to resolving a political crisis that engulfed the small southern African mountain kingdom late last year. 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