{"id":35199,"date":"2017-06-17T16:16:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T16:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/lesotho-prime-minister-thomas-thabane-sworn-in\/"},"modified":"2017-06-17T16:15:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T16:15:55","slug":"lesotho-prime-minister-thomas-thabane-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/lesotho-prime-minister-thomas-thabane-sworn-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane sworn in despite wife&#8217;s killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Lesotho&#8217;s new Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has been sworn in, two days after his estranged wife was shot dead.}<\/p>\n<p>There were doubts whether the inauguration would take place so soon after her killing.<br \/>\nPrime Minister Thabane&#8217;s ABC party defeated his bitter rival Pakalitha Mosisili&#8217;s party in a snap election earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third election in three years after a bitter power-struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Thabane&#8217;s party won 48 of the 80 directly contested seats in the 120-strong parliament but he had to form a coalition government with three other parties in order to reach a 63-seat majority to form a government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sincerely hope that political reforms will bring stability in Lesotho and ensure that Lesotho governments last for a normal five-year term,&#8221; Prime Minister Thabane said in his inaugural speech, AFP reports.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Thabane also commented for the first time about the recent death of his wife Lipolelo, who was shot dead on Wednesday night while travelling home with a friend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am mourning her death, and the senseless killing of people like this&#8230; is one of many challenges that I am faced with as a new prime minister,&#8221; AFP says<\/p>\n<p>The police say the motive for her killing is unknown and an investigation is continuing.<br \/>\nThe couple had been living separately since 2012 and filed for divorce which hasn&#8217;t been granted yet.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Thabane attended the swearing in with another wife, Ma Isaiah Ramoholi.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20862 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_96522802_thabane1.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Thomas Thabane (L) was sworn in for a second time\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Lesotho&#8217;s new Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has been sworn in, two days after his estranged wife was shot dead.} There were doubts whether the inauguration would take place so soon after her killing. Prime Minister Thabane&#8217;s ABC party defeated his bitter rival Pakalitha Mosisili&#8217;s party in a snap election earlier this month. It was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35199"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35199"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}