TAIPEI — Taiwan's leader Lai Ching-te will travel next week to Eswatini, the self-ruled island's only ally in Africa, his office said on Monday. Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, is among ...

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Taiwan President Lai Ching-te will visit Eswatini next week, his office said on Monday, the ​island's last remaining ...

Africa's last absolute monarchy confirmed in November it had received around $5.1 million from the United States to accept ...

You'd think that as civilization marched forward, our legal codes would, you know, make sense. But buried in dusty statute books around the world are laws so absurd they sound like someone lost a bet.

“In traditional Swazi society,” Swaziland’s King Sobhuza II once observed, “a latecomer often gets the best cut of meat.” As Britain’s last colonial claim on the African continent except for breakaway ...

King Mswati III of Swaziland (which he now prefers to call eSwatini) rules over a country in deep political and economic crisis. He ascended to the throne in 1986 after a disputed selection process ...

The original version of this post was written by Brian Hioe and published in New Bloom on November 2, 2023. The following edited version is published on Global Voices under a content partnership ...

More than 580,000 registered voters will elect 59 members of Eswatini’s lower house, while King Mswati III will appoint an additional 10. He also chooses 20 of the 30 senators in the upper house.

But while the average person struggles to make ends meet, the African nation’s leader, King Mswati III, has never been shy about splashing his cash. The monarch – who is reportedly worth more than ...

Rachel Evans spoke to Luna Michaels from Friends of Swazi Freedom, an international activist group working in solidarity with the people of Swaziland, about the struggle for democracy and an end to ...