President George Manneh Weah has congratulated the Government and people of the Kingdom of Lesotho on the occasion commemorating the 52^nd Independence Anniversary of that country.

The Kingdom of Lesotho observes its 52^nd Independence Anniversary Thursday, October 4 2018.  

The Present Lesotho, then called Basutoland, emerged as a single polity under King Moshoeshoe I, in 1822. Basutoland gained its independence from Britain and became the Kingdom of Lesotho in 1966.

According to a Foreign Ministry release, in his message to His Excellency Tom Thabane, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Lesotho, President George Manneh Weah, on behalf of the Government and people of Liberia, and in his own name, extended heartfelt felicitations and best wishes to the Government and people of Lesotho, following the official observance of that country’s 52^nd independence anniversary.

President Weah then prayed that the Almighty God will continue to endow His Excellency Tom Thabane with abundant wisdom and strength as he steers the affairs of the Kingdom of Lesotho.