Lesotho Goes to the Polls Amid Ongoing Political Crisis

Thousands of voters in Lesotho are casting their ballots this Friday in the southern African kingdom’s general elections.

The election will go ahead despite a deadlock in parliament on a whole gamut of major constitutional reforms that were meant to be enacted ahead of the vote so as to bring order to Lesotho’s fractious politics.

It is a tight race between the top three parties out of a field of more than 60 registered political parties.

Outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Mathibeli Mokhothu of the…