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                    Lesotho PM Returns Home Following Unrest

   by VOA News

   Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has returned to the capital,
   Maseru, four days after he fled to South Africa after an apparent bid
   by the military to oust him.

   Police and government officials say the prime minister arrived in the
   country on Wednesday guarded by South African police.

   ''Thabane fled Lesotho on Saturday before the military surrounded his
   residence and that of a top police official, and then disarmed two
   police stations in the capital, Maseru.

   He accused the army and Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing of
   seeking to oust him from power.

   The military denied staging a coup and accused elements of the police
   force of planning to arm political radicals ahead of an anti-government
   protest.

   The unrest prompted members of a regional security bloc, the Southern
   African Development Community (SADC), to hold an emergency meeting in
   Pretoria Monday, during which a deal was brokered to ease Lesotho's
   political crisis.

   Lesotho is a small, mountainous country with two million people
   encircled by South Africa.  It has gone through several coups since it
   won independence from Britain in 1966.
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