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Lesotho's election winner announces new coalition government

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Lesotho business mogul Sam Matekane whose party has won 56 of the 120 constituencies in the general elections, in Lesotho, announced Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. [AP Photo]

Lesotho's businessman-turned-politician Sam Matekane is set to become the southern African country's next prime minister after cobbling together a coalition headed by his Revolution for Prosperity party.

Matekane, 64, announced the new three-party coalition Tuesday in the capital, Maseru. His party will team up with two smaller parties, the Alliance of Democrats and the Movement for Economic Change parties, to secure a parliamentary majority needed to form a government.

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