Photographer Thom Pierce photographed horsemen and herders in Semonkong, Lesotho. Semonkong is made up of remote villages in the mountains. Locals rely on horses for transportation and livestock for ...

SEMONKONG, Lesotho – People in mountainous Lesotho, some wrapped in blankets to ward off the cold, voted in national elections on Saturday amid concerns about chronic political instability in the ...

Sister Amelia Dikiso, a member of the Good Shepherd Sisters of Quebec, poses while teaching a young man who is a herder how to put letters together to form words, at the Good Shepherd Night School in ...

SEMONKONG, Lesotho (AFP) — Swathed in vibrant woollen blankets against the biting winter chill, jockeys — some no more than boys — thundered down a dusty track carved between the undulating hills of ...

Blues brighter than a Mediterranean sky, greens more vibrant than an Irish countryside and mountains more mysterious than the Scottish Highlands. Forget about Africa as you knew it and enter the ...

A man casts his vote during the national elections at Semonkong, Lesotho June 3, 2017. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko MASERU (Reuters) - People in Lesotho voted in a national election on Saturday just two ...

Spectators lining the ridges cheered on the riders as their horses sprinted down one of Africa's highest tracks, more than 2,200 metres (7,200 feet) above sea level. A jockey rides his horse after ...

Swathed in vibrant woollen blankets against the biting winter chill, jockeys - some no more than boys - thundered down a dusty track carved between the undulating hills of the tiny kingdom of Lesotho.

Spectators lining the ridges cheered on the riders as their horses sprinted down one of Africa's highest tracks, more than 2,200 metres (7,200 feet) above sea level. Horse racing in Lesotho, a country ...