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In 2012, the United Nations proclaimed March 20 as the International Day of Happiness or World Happiness Day, which has been held on this date every year since.The aim is to promote awareness for a "more inclusive, equitable and balanced approach to economic growth that promotes the happiness and well-being of all people".Although happiness and satisfaction are subjective parameters, Statista's Anna Fleck notes that the team behind the World Happiness Report has once again produced a country ranking this year that reveals clear differences between Western industrialized nations and countries in Asia and Africa.You will find more infographics at StatistaIn...

The US will restrict travel from South Africa and seven other nearby countries from next week as fears grow over the new COVID-19 Omicron variant, the White House said Friday. The travel ban, which doesn’t apply to American citizens or permanent residents, will come into effect from Monday. The new restrictions apply to South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi.

The beads were tested using a method called strontium isotope analysis to determine the point of origin for the shells, learning where they were originally laid. Much like radiocarbon dating that analyzes the rate of decay of an element over time, the analysis relies on detecting strontium-87, the product of the radioactive element rubidium-87 as it decays. Old rock formations including granite are found to have more strontium than younger rocks like basalt. And when animals eat grass from around these rocks, the strontium becomes part of their tissues. Lesotho is at the heart of the Karoo Supergroup, a geologic...

A Danish man living in South Africa has been arrested after police claim to have found 21 pieces of female genitalia stashed inside his freezer. His arrest came after his wife, from Lesotho, told police he drugged her and cut off her genitalia while incapacitated. Named by Danish newspaper BT as 63-year-old Peter Frederiksen, it was revealed he had openly discussed practising female genital mutilation with a journalist in the past. Hangwani Mulaudzi, a South African police spokesman, told the paper: 'We have found 21 genitals from 21 women. 'The man's wife is one of the women. We are now...

DOWA, Malawi - In February, when the food ran out, Ezlina Chambukira started selling her precious possessions one by one. First, her goat. Then an old umbrella. Then two metal plates and a battered pail. When she had nothing left, she started praying for a miracle. For the first time in a decade, severe hunger is sweeping across southern Africa. The United Nations says that two years of erratic weather - alternating droughts and floods - coupled with mismanagement of food supplies have left seven million people in six countries at risk of starvation. Here in this dusty village of...

Note: The following text is a quote: YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Warden Message: Lesotho Attempted Assassination of Prime Minister CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS Sub-Saharan Africa - Lesotho 22 Apr 2009 Printer Friendly Email Article U.S. Embassy Maseru issued the following Warden Message on April 22: This warden message alerts U.S. citizens to security incidents that occurred in the early morning hours of April 22, 2009, in Maseru. Local media are reporting the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili on April 22. Following this incident, sustained gunfire was heard in Maseru West, and...

FORT HUACHUCA — It’s a small kingdom, surrounded by a powerful country, but Lesotho is again heading for democracy, an Army officer from the African nation said Friday. Political turmoil in the past is only exceeded today in the Kingdom of Lesotho by disease, as the country has one of the highest rates of HIV and AIDS in the world, said Capt. Ntele Ntoi, who is attending the center’s foreign officers military intelligence course on the post. One of the charts he showed to the more than 100 people at a lunch briefing stated Lesotho’s life expectancy has dropped from...

MASERU, LESOTHO -- A neighbor shaved Matsepang Nyoba's head with an antiquated razor. Blood beaded on her scalp. Tears trickled down her cheeks, but not because of the pain. She was in mourning, and this was a ritual. Two days earlier, her newborn baby girl had died in the roach-infested maternity ward of Queen Elizabeth II, a crumbling sprawl that is the largest hospital in Lesotho, a mountainous nation of 2.1 million people surrounded by South Africa. Nyoba, 30, whose given name means "mother, have hope," has AIDS. But that is not what killed her baby daughter, Mankuebe. Nyoba owes...

MASERU, Lesotho (AP) - A Dutch aid worker with the Clinton Foundation was shot to death at the house of Lesotho's trade and industry minister, police said Saturday. Samuella Jacobina Verwey, 36, her husband and two American aid workers arrived late Friday at Minister Mpho Malie's house. As they left the car, heavy gunfire erupted, police spokesman Pheelo Mphana said. The minister and his wife were in neighboring South Africa at the time. The whereabouts of the four guards at Malie's residence were unknown. The aid workers were staying on the property. Mphana said 24 AK-47 assault rifle shells were...

VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 6, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI has appointed Archbishop James P. Green as apostolic nuncio in Lesotho. Since Aug. 17, Archbishop Green, a 56-year-old native of Philadelphia, has been apostolic nuncio of South Africa and Namibia and apostolic delegate in Botswana. The Vatican press office announced his additional post today. Until August, the then Monsignor Green was nunciature adviser in the General Affairs Section of the Vatican Secretariat of State. He was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in May 1976. After obtaining a licentiate in canon law, he entered the Vatican diplomatic service in March...

KILLER BUG AIR SCARE A WOMAN who arrived in London on a flight from Africa yesterday is reported to have died from the deadly and contagious ebola virus. Panic has spread among cabin crew and hospital staff after the death of the 38-year-old Briton. The unnamed woman is understood to work at an embassy in the African kingdom of Lesotho. Before boarding a Virgin Atlantic flight from Johannesburg to Heathrow she visited a doctor complaining of flu-like symptoms. She was allowed to fly, but during Flight VS602 to the UK she suffered a violent fit which left her unconscious. Cabin...