The shooting of a newspaper editor in Lesotho is the latest in a series of attacks on government critics in the mountainous country surrounded by South Africa, a church official said.
Lloyd Mutungamiri, editor of the Lesotho Times, was critically injured in the July 9 attack by unknown gunmen outside his home in the capital, Maseru.
"The situation in the country is terrible and deteriorating," said Booi Mohapi, who heads the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace of the Lesotho bishops' conference.
