RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Feb 16, 2008 (AFP) - Platinum Stars of South Africa scored three times in six minutes en route to a 4-0 victory over Correctional Services of Lesotho Saturday in the African Champions League.

RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Feb 16, 2008 (AFP) - Result of an African Champions League first round, first leg match on Saturday:

Platinum Stars (South Africa) 4 (Solomon Mathe 15, Daniel Tshabalala 16, Koketso Mmotong 20, Collen Makgopela 90+2) Correctional Services (Lesotho) 0

Second leg: Feb 29-Mar 2

MASERU, Feb 8, 2008 (AFP) - Botswana's former president Sir Ketumile Masire delivered a downbeat assessment Friday of the prospects of breaking an impasse between government and opposition in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho.

MASERU, Jan 31, 2008 (AFP) - Lesotho opposition leader Tom Thabane gave his backing Thursday to a bid by ex-Botswana premier Ketimule Masire to mediate an end to a standoff with the government in the troubled African mountain kingdom.

VIENNA, Jan 22, 2008 (AFP) - The International Press Institute urged Lesotho to drop all charges against a local journalist arrested last year for allegedly making contact with violent government opponents, in a statement Tuesday.

MASERU, Jan 20, 2008 (AFP) - Veteran British pop star Elton John has donated 120 motorbikes to help doctors and nurses do their rounds in the mountainous southern African kingdom of Lesotho.

John, accompanied by his partner David Furnish, took time out on Saturday from a tour of South Africa to visit Lesotho for the handover ceremony just outside the capital Maseru.

MASERU, Jan 17, 2008 (AFP) - Former Malawi coach Kim Splidsboel heads the names on a four-man shortlist of foreigners drawn up by football chiefs in Lesotho to take charge of the national team.

Splidsboel, a Danish national, told AFP that he would be willing to be interviewed for the post as long as his bill for the trip to the mountain kingdom in southern Africa was picked up.

MASERU, Dec 11, 2007 (AFP) - Lesotho's capital Maseru was brought to a standstill on Tuesday as thousands of workers heeded a stay-away call by the opposition as part of long-running dispute over election results.

MASERU, Nov 2, 2007 (AFP) - Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, met Friday with AIDS orphans being cared for by a charity in Lesotho launched in memory of his late mother Princess Diana, royal sources said.

MASERU, Oct 18, 2007 (AFP) - Lesotho's opposition leader vowed Thursday to lead a campaign of mass protests to force new elections if the government fails to agree to talks to settle a dispute over the allocation of parliamentary seats.

'We will take to the streets and exert more pressure on the government to hold fresh elections if they continue to fail to cooperate,' Tom Thabane, leader of the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party, told AFP.