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Lesotho orders indefinite curfew after radio journalist is shot dead

Lesotho orders indefinite curfew after radio journalist is shot dead

Murder of Ralikonelo ‘Leqhashasha’ Joki prompts crackdown in southern African nation amid warnings of threat to media freedom

Lesotho has imposed an indefinite nationwide curfew after the killing of a prominent radio presenter in the capital, Maseru, this week.

Ralikonelo “Leqhashasha” Joki, who worked for Ts’enolo FM radio station, was shot at least 13 times by unknown assailants as he left the studio after his Sunday evening show at about 10pm.

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