The World - News from Jan. 28, 1986
Lesotho’s King Moshoeshoe II swore in a new Cabinet headed by Maj. Gen. Justin Lekhanya, the military officer who overthrew the government of Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan a week earlier. Lekhanya is chairman of the council of ministers and of a six-man military council exercising power in the name of the king. The coup followed a virtual blockade by South Africa, which accused Lesotho of harboring guerrillas of the African National Congress.
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