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• Africa Action: Southern African Church Organizations on Lesotho, September 1998 (Washington, DC)
  
  
• African Development Bank Group on Lesotho (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
  Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
  
  
• Central Bank of Lesotho (Maseru, Lesotho)
  
  
• Constitution of Lesotho (1993) (Lesotho Government Online, Maseru, Lesotho)
  
  
• Development Gateway Country Overview on Lesotho (Washington, DC)
  A clearinghouse of links to a wide variety of organizational websites with economic data. Originally founded by The World Bank, the DG has been an "independent", donor-funded organization since 2001.
  
  
• Directory of Development Organizations: Lesotho (2006) (Bert Wesselink, The Netherlands?) PDF format.
  
  
• ELDIS Country Profiles (Electronic Development and Environment Information System, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
  Search for Lesotho: This service compiles and indexes links to online full texts (requiring Adobe Acrobat PDF), related web sites, and print publications in the IDS library on a variety of subjects pertaining to Lesotho, especially in the fields of agricultural economics, trade, health, governance, and education.
  
  
• FAO Aquastat Programme -- Search: Lesotho, 2005 (Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy)
  A brief profile on water resources in Lesotho. "The 'thirst' for water data is ever increasing and there is indeed considerable demand for data on rural water use from national governments and development agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations initiated an activity in 1993 to meet this demand with particular focus on irrigation. This resulted in the AQUASTAT Programme, the objective of which is to generate rural water use data at country level in a systematic manner."
  
  
• Human Rights Internet: UN Human Rights System, For the Record: Lesotho, 2002 | 2003 (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
  A small selection of treaties, other documents, and related links are available from this website.
  
  
• International Bureau of Education = Bureau de l'Education International: Lesotho (UNESCO, Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Documents & resources on Lesotho (reports and statistics)
  
  
• The International Monetary Fund: Lesotho Country Info (Washington, DC)
  Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat.
  
  
• International Rivers Network: Lesotho Campaign and Reports, 1994-- (Berkeley, California)
  "IRN supports local communities working to protect their rivers and watersheds. We work to halt destructive river development projects, and to encourage equitable and sustainable methods of meeting needs for water, energy and flood management."
  
  
• The Lesotho Government Online (Maseru, Lesotho)
  • Lesotho Monarchy
  • Lesotho Vision 2020
  • Ministries
  
  
• Lesotho National Assembly (Maseru, Lesotho)
  
  
• Lesotho Web Page (University of Pennsylvania)
  
  
• MBendi AfroPaedia: Lesotho (MBendi Information Services, South Africa)
  A basic economic & investment profile.
  
  
• National Information and Communications Infrastructure for Sustainable Development in Africa: Lesotho, 1999 (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  General background, Internet connectivity data, and project information.
  
  
• National University of Lesotho, Roma
  • NUL Library Home Page
    This page offers general and contact information only; no online catalog available. See also: National University of Lesotho -- Thomas Mofolo Library Home Page, via Lund University, Sweden.
  • Institute of Education
  • Institute of Labour Studies
  • Institute of Southern African Studies
  
  
• Sesotho Web Site (J. Olivier, South Africa)
  A basic primer on Southern Sesotho; downloadable dictionary (online version still unavailable). The site also includes background information on history and culture, lists of Sesotho publications, and related links on Lesotho.
  
  
• United Nations Development Programme in Lesotho (Maseru)
  
  
• United Nations Development Programme -- Human Development Report Indicators for Lesotho: 2003 | 2004 (UNDP, New York)
  
  
• UNFPA--United Nations Population Fund: Lesotho Country Profile (New York)
  
  
• United States Agencies on Lesotho (Washington, DC)
  • United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics:
    -- US-Lesotho Trade Balance, 1992--
    -- US International Trade Statistics: Lesotho, 1996-- (Search)
    
    
  • United States. Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook: Lesotho (2008)
    
    
  • United States. Department of State: Lesotho Country Report on Human Rights Practices: 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007
    
    
  • United States. Commercial Service: Recent documents on Lesotho economy (2002) (International Trade Administration)
  
  
• The World Bank on Lesotho (Washington, DC)
  • The World Bank in Lesotho, 1999-
    A country brief and data (PDF file); plus a searchable database on project information.