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I will not resign: Lesotho prime minister─── 13:53 Sat, 30 Aug 2014
Maseru - Lesotho's prime minister Tom Thabane says he will not resign amid a suspected coup attempt in the mountain kingdom this morning.
Thabane told eNCA that resigning was not on the table.
Sports minister and leader of the Basotho National Party Thesele Maseribane said Lesotho's military seized control of police adquarters in the tiny African kingdom in the early hours of Saturday, describing the events as a coup attempt.
"The armed forces, the special forces of Lesotho, have taken the headquarters of the police," "The [military] commander said he was looking for me, the prime minister and the deputy prime minister to take us to the king. In our country, that means a coup," he said.
But Maseribane insisted Thabane's government was still in control of the landlocked nation, which is located within eastern South Africa.
Maseribane said he had fled his residence hours earlier after receiving a warning about an impending putsch.
Sapa, eNCA
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