Swaziland News

A young woman is seeking asylum in Britain after she spurned the advances of the polyamorous King Mswati III of Swaziland and refused to join his harem of 13 wives.

Members of political parties advocating for democracy in Swaziland will not be allowed to become members of the Swazi Senate, the kingdom's Prime Minister Barnabas Dlamini has decreed.

Voters have begun registering for elections in Swaziland, Africa's last absolute monarchy, with unions calling for a boycott of a "rubber-stamp" poll.

Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini can't be running a democracy if no challenge to the monarchy or state is possible, writes Musa Ndlangamandla.

King of Swaziland Mswati III and one of his 13 wives disembark from a plane after arriving at Katunayake International airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 13, 2012.

PanARMENIAN.Net - On May 3, Armenia's and Swaziland's permanent representatives to the UN, Karen Nazarian and Zwelethu Mnisi signed a joint statement on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

It was astonishing that a Mail & Guardian article could claim Morocco's King Mohammed VI as "one of only two constitutional monarchs on the continent together with Swaziland's King Mswati III". Why did the M&G 's Page 24 not also read Page 35, in the same issue, on repression in Swaziland? It is indeed appropriate to group together the Moroccan and ... (more)

Workers in Britain mobilising for May Day events tomorrow or the coming days should spare a thought for fellow trade unionists in Swaziland who would like nothing better than to freely celebrate international workers day.

Chris Matthews is leaving "The Chris Matthews Show," his nationally syndicated politics talk show on NBC, whose last episode will air July 21, reports TVNewser .

A youth leader in Swaziland has been charged with sedition because he allegedly tried to organise a meeting to discuss the forthcoming elections in the kingdom.

King Mswati III's US$3.6 million birthday party was privately sponsored and did not cost the Swazi people anything, the government has claimed.

Since independence, Swaziland has tried to square the circle by running a modern democracy and an absolute monarchy in parallel.

WAM Abu Dhabi, 25th April 2013 -- No visa is required for UAE citizens traveling to the Kingdom of Swaziland, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today.

King Mswati III of the Kingdom of Swaziland at the Southern African Development Community Extraordinary Summit in Johannesburg, June 11, 2011.

The clash of tradition and modernity, the contradiction therein, and the hypocrisy thereabout, is best illustrated by the issue of how women dress in Swaziland Swaziland gained independence from Britain in 1968 under King Sobhuza II, whose nominal reign of almost 83 years is a world record.

The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Swaziland's appeals court to overturn last week's conviction of an editor for "contempt by scandalizing the court" in relation to two articles criticizing the country's chief justice.

One of Swaziland's few independent source of news, The Nation magazine, has been found guilty of "contempt by scandalizing the court" following its publication of two articles in 2009 and 2010 that criticised Chief Justice Michael Ramodibedi.