Swaziland News

The Ministry of National Defense has flatly denied a Wednesday media report that Defense Minister Yen Ming's cellphone was tapped by China during his visit to Africa earlier this year.

Human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko and Bhekithemba Makhubu, editor of Swaziland's monthly news magazine The Nation, were arrested in March after Chief Justice Michael Ramodibedi issued defective arrest warrants in response to two articles that raised concerns about judicial independence and integrity in Swaziland.

Striking workers at Swaziland's Ubombo Sugar Company have won a 10 percent pay increase , despite suffering intimidation by the Swazi Army and state security forces.

Workers at Ubombo Sugar have been on strike for more than three weeks for more pay.

Swaziland, located in southern part of Africa, has been excluded from the list of countries eligible to get benefit under the African Growth and Opportunity Act of the US Government, with effect from January 1, 2015, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has announced through a press release.

The ruling Namibian party has reportedly described the country's soon- to-be-launched NEFF opposition party as a hopeless bunch of disgruntled individuals who are imitating the EFF.

Thus, pursuant to section 506A of the 1974 Act ), I terminated the designation of Madagascar as a beneficiary sub-Saharan African country for purposes of section 506A of the 1974 Act.

The 2014 five-in-one Taipei International Food Show kicked off yesterday, featuring food products from around the globe as well as different food processing equipment.

A jailed opponent of Swaziland's government wore the traditional animal skin garb of a Zulu warrior and invoked Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr. in a courtroom speech in the landlocked African kingdom, which has largely sidestepped currents of political change elsewhere in the world.

In this photo taken Wednesday, June 4, 2014, lawyer Thulani Maseko, appears in court in the traditional animal skin garb of a Zulu warrior, in Mbabane, Swaziland.

A highly anticipated report into how police and prosecutors handled the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case will be released early next week, Pennsylvania's attorney general said Friday.

The threat of Swaziland being suspended from a US preferential trade agreement for poor progress in meeting democratic norms is threatening the livelihoods of tens of thousands of worker in a country where unemployment is already above 40 percent.

The Swaziland government has granted a R80 million tender to Inyatsi Construction to do earthworks preparations for a luxury hotel and convention centre complex at the Mbabane suburb of Ezulwini.