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Disputes within the coalition government led by Prime Minister Tom Thabane of the All Basotho Congress (abc) culminated in a no-confidence motion. Political uncertainty had already been amplified by an apparent attempt to assassinate the prime minister in January, and was laid bare by an open rift between the Lesotho Defence Force (ldf) and the Lesotho Mounted Police…