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The political calm that Lesotho had enjoyed since the general elections of 2002 was threatened by mounting discontent with government and the breakaway from the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) of 18 of its own MPs to form the All Basotho Convention Party (ABC). This reduced the LCD's majority in parliament to just two, prompting Prime Min…