Like many other African countries, Lesotho has
suffered from internal politicking which has left an already
disadvantaged country even weaker, where a quarter of the
population has HIV/AIDS, alongside high unemployment, near
economic collapse and a week currency.
Lesotho is in 158th place out of 186 countries and territories in
2013 when ranked in terms of life expectancy, literacy, access to
knowledge and the living standards of a country.
Droughts have occurred
in Lesotho for decades, however recent droughts have been the
worst for over a quarter of a century leaving upwards of a quarter
of the population in need of humanitarian aid just to survive.
Such droughts have decimated farm crops and many have abandoned
the land, not just because of uncertainty as to whether crops will
actually end up growing, but also due to a shortage of manpower as
AIDS sweeps across the kingdom. It is now estimated that a quarter
of all adults in Lesotho have HIV with 50% of all women infected.
This is the third highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS anywhere in the
world and in 2009 alone 12,000 people died from leaving 30% of all
children in Lesotho orphaned with live expectancy not even 40