Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

The African country of Lesotho doesn't make the news much,

but now the Prime Minister has promised to resign,

his wife is on the lamb, and questions are again being raised

about the murder of his ex-wife three years ago.

And there's not a lot of agreement in jurisdictions around the world

about the use of lie detector tests.

What is clear is that the tests don't work perfectly,

but even so there's a belief that they can spot some of the truth,

and that is enough to make people reveal more of it.

First up though.

For more than half a century the Colombian government had been at war

with the FARC rebel group.

There had been some steps toward peace about a decade ago,

but talks became stuck.

The two sides couldn't agree on how those responsible

for the crimes of the civil war should be held to account.

A British charity called Intermediate helped find a way forward,

and in 2015 a pioneering transitional justice deal was reached,

a historic piece of code was soon to follow.

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