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Lesotho: Peoples
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Due to persistent drought and resultant famine, the people of Lesotho are dependent upon food aid for their survival. In 2007, the grain harvest was ravaged by one of the worst droughts in 30 years. The World Food Programme predicts continued food shortages, with some 400,000 people—a fifth of the total population—needing food assistance during the first three months of 2008.
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Most of Lesotho's people belong to the Sotho ethnic group. About one sixth of the population is Zulu, and there are small minorities of Asians, Europeans, and people of mixed ancestry. Sotho, a Bantu language, and English are the official languages. Christianity is the official religion, though a small fraction of the population follows traditional beliefs.
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Lesotho ... suffers from the fourth highest rate of tuberculosis infection in the world. Most people infected with TB in Lesotho are also HIV-positive and nearly 1,000 people each year contract strains of TB that are resistant to all first-line drugs.
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Lesotho's ethno-linguistic structure consists almost entirely of the Basotho, a Bantu-speaking people. The Kwena (Bakoena) are the largest subgroup of the Sotho; other Basotho subgroups include the Natal (North) Nguni, Batloung (the Tlou), Baphuthi (the Phuti), Bafokeng, Bataung (the Tau), Bats'oeneng (the tso'ene) and the Cape (South) Nguni (Thembu). Sesotho (Southern Sotho) and English languages are both official. Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa and French are ... spoken.
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When the project was conceived, local people had little choice but to accept what was handed down to them from the top: the political environment within Lesotho was repressive and dictatorial. NGOs in Lesotho, South Africa and the West campaigned against the project, but to no avail.
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Lesotho is popularly referred to as the "Kingdom in the sky". Small, mountainous and landlocked by South Africa, it has a population of 2.1 million people of whom more than 85% live in the rural areas.
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