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Maesaiah Thabane, the 42-year-old first lady of Lesotho, the mountainous African nation that is completely encompassed by South Africa, turned herself in to police Tuesday for the 2017 murder of Lipolelo Thabane, the country’s former first lady and the estranged wife of the 80-year-old sitting prime minister, Thomas Thabane.

Police have confirmed  Wednesday’s killing of Mrs. Lipolelo Thabane, 58, the wife of incoming Lesotho Prime Minister Tom, two days before her husband’s inauguration. The incident has raised the fears of another wave of political violence in the southern African mountain kingdom. Police spokesperson Clifford Molefe said Lipolelo was traveling home with a friend when both women where shot by …