MASERU—Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane bowed to pressure to resign on May 19, three months after police named him and his current wife as suspects in the murder of his former wife in a case that has transfixed the southern African nation.
Thabane’s departure marks the end of one of Lesotho’s longest political careers, one marked by exile, intrigue, tensions with the military, and a political crisis that deepened when police named him as a murder suspect in February.
