LESOTHO: High, dry and hungry

MASERU Wednesday, September 17, 2008 (IRIN) - Mantseuoa Rantho has been feeding her family on credit. "We call it living on skoloto [credit] in Sesotho," she says. She now owes her neighbours in Ha Tsiu, a village tucked away in Lesotho's Thaba Putsoa Mountains, 100km east of the capital, Maseru, three bowls of maize-meal. Rantho keeps a mental note of her creditors; when she does manage to find the money to buy a sack of maize-meal, she laughs, "You should see how quickly it all disappears."...