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Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane just before he voted in the country's early elections. (File, AP)
Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane just before he voted in the country's early elections. (File, AP)

Maseru - The results of Lesotho's snap election following an alleged coup attempt last year trickled in slowly on Sunday, with Prime Minister Thomas Thabane taking an early lead with a quarter of the vote tallied.

Saturday's parliamentary poll, which was called two years ahead of schedule, passed without incident according to observers.

But hampered by manual counting and Lesotho's mountainous terrain, the results were slow to come in Sunday.

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