Lesotho: Media Barred From Reporting On Famo Issues

…while Basotho are also banned from listening to famo music

MEDIA practitioners will now be charged criminally should they continue to report about the recently outlawed famo gangs, Acting Police Commissioner, Mahlape Morai, has said.

The startling development surfaced during the Lesotho Mounted Police Services (LMPS)’s weekly press briefing on Tuesday.

Addressing journalists gathered at the Police Headquarters in Maseru, Dr Morai said the media was now barred from publishing or broadcasting…