Lesotho: Mosisili resigns after his party fails to obtain majority in parliament

— In Zambia late last year, the incumbent president Rupiah Banda conceded defeat after 3 years in power.

Former Malawi President Bakili Muluzi, speaking Thursday from Lesotho’s capital where he was leading a Commonwealth election observer mission, said he believes Africa is moving forward.

“We chose democracy in Africa,” he said. “And we should allow democracy to prevail.”

In the first decades after independence from Britain in 1966, Lesotho’s military and its king repeatedly meddled in politics, weakening democracy. The king is now considered merely a figurehead.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.

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