By Teboho Serutla
Lesotho is bidding to cooperate with another southern African state Eswatini in the areas of culture, education and agriculture.
This emerged during a media briefing hosted today by Lesotho prime minister Moeketsi Majoro and Eswatini’s acting prime minister Themba Nhlanganiso Masuku during his short visit to the mountain kingdom.
Majoro expressed appreciation for Eswatini’s support at the time Lesotho chaired the SADC organisation in the year 2016. He welcomed that country’s backing while Lesotho experienced political crisis and instability in recent years.
Majoro also hinted on Eswatini’s economic growth mostly supported by sugar cane production. He thought the two countries would also cooperate in areas of agriculture which is the backbone of the two state’s poor economies.
For his part, Masuku remarked that although the scourge of pandemic Covid-19 has hit hard on both countries, he said efforts were to be put in place to avert any prolonged negative effects.
He observed that the two states shared some common features as they are landlocked.
It emerged that the two monarchies have strong high mutual relations that have kept them together.
The two kingdoms are set to attend the June 2021 meeting in Maputo, Mozambique whereby Covid-19 and the insurgency in that country’s province of Delgado will top the list on the agenda.
