Swaziland News

The revelation puts the integrity of the election in the kingdom ruled by the autocratic monarch King Mswati III in doubt.

Three members of the pro-democracy group SWAYOCO charged with sedition for carrying a banner at an election rally in Swaziland say they have been beaten up while in prison awaiting trial.

MTN, which has absolute monarch King Mswati III as a major shareholder , and is the sole mobile phone company in Swaziland, has been attacked for sponsoring registration for the kingdom's controversial national election.

This was announced only days after President Teodoro Nguema Obiange of Equatorial Guinea claimed that his party, the ruling Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea , had won 99 of the 100 seats in the lower house of assembly and 54 of 55 senate seats in elections held last month.

Swaziland's Sikhuphe Airport, the multi-billion rand vanity project of King Mswati III, has construction flaws and is likely to be unusable, a South African newspaper has claimed .

A senior government engineer has warned that construction flaws in Swaziland's new Sikhuphe International Airport are likely to render the R2.36-billion facility unusable.

King Mswati III of Swaziland, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch, has announced the controversial elections to the House of Assembly in his kingdom will be held on 20 September.

Eight farmers and officials from the Kingdom of Swaziland were given certificates of success over the weekend at the completion of their 2-week training course in Bangkok provided under the initiative of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.

Swaziland, Africa's last absolute monarchy, will hold elections on September 20, officials said, a poll that unions and opposition leaders have dismissed as a mere "rubber stamp" of the autocratic rule of King Mswati III.

From front row, left to right, Swaziland King Mswati III, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, former Japanese Prime Mminister Yoshiro Mori and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, and UNDP ... (more)

Supporters of King Mswati III's autocratic regime in Swaziland say that the Swazi people accept the present political system and do not want change, but evidence from the way they vote suggests the opposite is the case.

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.

Mounds of food aid intended for Swaziland's food insecure were recently found rotting in the government's main storage warehouses at the Matsapha Industrial Estate, about 25km east of the capital, Mbabane.

Percy Simelane, the Swaziland Government's official spokesperson, misled people when he told media, 'Everyone is free to speak about the elections and [they can do it] anywhere.' Simelene was responding to a question by the Swazi Observer newspaper after Witwatersrand University in South Africa hosted a dialogue on the national election due in ... (more)

The independent Kingdom of Swaziland lies between Mozambique and South Africa and forms part of the Southern African region.

Tintswalo Ngobeni, 22, fled to England from the southern African nation as a teenager after she caught the attention of the millionaire monarch, a notoriously oppressive ruler known for his lavish lifestyle.

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.