EU gives Swaziland humanitarian aid to feed hungry while absolute monarch...
Only two months after King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland (eSwatini), spent E53 million on a fleet of Rolls-Royce cars for himself and members of his family the European Union has...
View Article‘Plot underway to assassinate Swaziland absolute monarch’, international...
Mercenaries from Israel and Lebanon are plotting to assassinate King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland (eSwatini), the Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policyjournal reported.The...
View ArticlePublic sector corruption in Swaziland getting worse, Transparency...
The public sector in Swaziland (eSwatini) is ‘corrupt to highly corrupt’, according to the latest annual report from Transparency International.The kingdom ruled by King Mswati III as sub-Saharan...
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Swaziland police chief threatens social media users with wrath of the law if...
Police in the absolute monarchy of Swaziland (eSwatini) are to hunt down and arrest people who criticise King Mswati on socail media.The National Commissioner of Police William Dlamini said the law...
View ArticleSwaziland’s absolute monarch tells parliament to ignore calls for democracy...
King Mswati III, the absolute monarch of Swaziland (eSwatini), told his parliament to ignore calls for democratic change and instead embrace the culture that allows him and his family to rule...
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Swaziland absolute monarch given reminder of Commonwealth’s human rights values
TheCommonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland presented the absolute monarch of Swaziland (eSwatini) King Mswati III with a copy of the Commonwealth Charter during her visit to the kingdom.The...
View ArticleChina closes embassies to Swazi people to force kingdom to drop support for...
China has closed all its embassies except in South Africa to Swaziland (eSwatini) people seeking visas to visit the country for leisure of business.In a statement it said the move could ‘cripple’...
View ArticleSwaziland’s King Mswati under pressure from China to end support for Taiwan
By Peter Kenworthy, 6 February 2020Western countries have not exerted much pressure on Swaziland’s absolute monarchy to rectify its lack of democracy and human rights. Neither has another democracy,...
View ArticleSwaziland woman faces 30 years in jail for selling ‘abortion pills’
A woman in Swaziland (eSwatini) has been sentenced to 30 years jail with the option of a E45,000 fine for selling pills that induced abortion.Celucolo Gaolaolwe, aged 41, herself a mother of five...
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Man 'thrown into fire' in latest case of alleged police torture in Swaziland
A newspaper in Swaziland (eSwatini) has reported the latest in a series of allegations of what it called ‘torture’ by local police. A man said police threw him into a fire.The Times of eSwatini, the...
View ArticleIMF reports Swaziland public debt rising, foreign reserves fallen ‘below...
The economy in Swaziland (eSwatini) continues in free-fall. Public debt is still rising, domestic arrears have grown, and international currency reserves have fallen ‘below adequate levels,’ the...
View ArticleBald-headed scalping rises new fear of ritual use of body parts in Swaziland
Bald-headed people might be the latest target in Swaziland (eSwatini) to have body parts used for ritual purposes.A man who died of natural causes later had his scalp cut off. His family believe this...
View ArticleSwaziland democracy leaders lose High Court case against police raids on...
Prodemocracy campaigners in Swaziland (eSwatini) who had their homes raided and property seized by police lost their High Court case calling the raids unconstitutional on a legal technicality.Police...
View ArticleSwaziland to increase spending on internal security as prodemocracy groups...
Swaziland (eSwatini) ruled by absolute monarch King Mswati III is to spend more money on national security in the coming year, the Swazi Finance Minister Neal Rijkenbergannounced in his annual...
View ArticleReporting of Swaziland Govt finances fails to meet international standards,...
Government finances in Swaziland (eSwatini) continue to be in a mess with widespread misreporting of assets and liabilities, the kingdom’s auditor general reported.Timothy Matsebulalisted a catalogue...
View ArticleSwaziland Govt tells High Court LGBTI acts are illegal because they are...
A representative of the Swaziland (eSwatini) Government told the kingdom’s High Court LGBTI people were ‘unnatural’ and their campaign group was unlawful.Siboniso Nkambule, Principal Secretary in the...
View ArticleSwaziland court threatens woman, 19, with jail for wearing miniskirt in public
A 19-year-old woman in Swaziland (eSwatini) was sentenced to three months in jail with the option of a fine for wearing a miniskirt in public. It happened in Luvumisa, a town near the border with South...
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Newspaper editor flees Swaziland for second time after arrest and police torture
Zweli Martin Dlamini, the editor of the Swaziland News, has fled Swaziland (eSwatini) for the second time after being arrested and tortured by police who accused him of sedition.Dlamini told South...
View ArticleSwaziland closes informal border crossings as coronavirus strikes South Africa
The Prime Minister of Swaziland (eSwatini) has announced all informal border crossings with South Africa will be closed in an attempt to stop the spread of the coronavirus.The crossings are used every...
View ArticleSwaziland MPs back auditor general and freeze budgets of public enterprises
A number of public enterprises in Swaziland (eSwatini) are to have their budgets from government frozen because they have not submitted financial returns.Members of the Swazi House of Assembly adopted...
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