"I decided to personally come and inform you that I am stepping down as prime minister of Lesotho," he told supporters in his Abia home constituency on the outskirts of the capital Maseru."It is rather difficult to part ways with something that you had been accustomed to and leave people behind, but we all have to leave at some point," he said.
Lesotho has been plagued by political instability since the start of this year after police accused Thabane of having a hand in the killing of his estranged wife in June 2017.
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