President Edgar Lungu commends citizens for multi-stakeholder dialogue to transform Lesotho

The President of Zambia, Edgar Lungu has commended the citizens of Lesotho for organizing a multi-stakeholder national dialogue meeting to help resolve the political conflict in the Kingdom.

The 62-year old Edgar Lungu said that “he is quite pleased to see that numerous stakeholders from government, political parties, civil society, youth, women, and church have gathered to discuss the future of the Kingdom of Lesotho.”

Lesotho is a high-altitude landlocked kingdom is crisscrossed by a network of rivers and mountains including Thabana Ntlenyana (standing at 3,482 meters high). Lesotho (officially the Kingdom of Lesotho) is an enclaved country within the border of South Africa.

Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu is confident that multi-stakeholder national dialogue will spark the necessary constitutional, political, judicial, security reforms, which will ensure the transmutation of Kingdom of Lesotho into a stable, peaceful and prosperous country. The country, which has a population of around 2 million, plummeted into instability when two defence commanders were murdered in 2015 and 2017. The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) sent the SADC Preventive Mission to Lesotho for restoring order and security. The organization (SADC) also commended President Lungu for accepting the Chairmanship for the Organ on Politics, Defense and Security Cooperation due the mid of 2018.

Emmanuel Mwamba, the Zambian High Commissioner to South Africa also urged the participants to give up their concept of differentiation and competition of ideas. He insisted the participants to work towards achieving the Kingdom of Lesotho that its people desired, as reported by Lusaka Times.