Swaziland News

The Incline Village/Crystal Bay Republican Women will meet from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 14, at the home of Maryanne Ingemanson.

It is a baking Monday afternoon in Mbabane, the capital city of Swaziland. Hloniphile Simelane, a 26-year-old lawyer, strides through the business district, a cellular phone clamped to her ear.

HEADLINES author/source:Star published:Mon 22-Jun-2009 "Nothing official had been brought to SADC's attention about such things" Swazi king says Harare 'is on track Peter Fabricius and Sapa Swaziland's King Mswati III says "things are going well so far" in Zimbabwe andthe Southern African Development Community has received no complaints that would ...

Southern African leaders push for further talks on Madagascar crisis Leaders of the Southern African Development Community , meeting in Johannesburg, brushed aside calls for military options to resolve Madagascar's political crisis, pushing instead for further talks AFP - Southern African leaders vowed Sunday to accelerate talks to resolve the ...

Madagascar's transitional authority has given a cool response to a call by Southern African leaders to speed up negotiations aimed at ending its three month-old political crisis.

Southern African leaders pushed Madagascar's political rivals to commit to all-party talks to end a lingering political crisis after the ouster of its leader three months ago.

King Lobengula must be turning in his grave at the way his last royal residence, a few kilometres from the present day's "City of Kings", has deteriorated.

TOUGH HATS TO FOLLOW: President Jacob Zuma's wives - Thobeka Mabhija, Nompumelelo Ntuli and Sizakele Khumalo- listen to his state of the nation address at a joint sitting of the National Assembly and National Council of Provinces Picture: GALLO IMAGES A first wife holds a mirror to the society led by her husband The project of nation building is ...

President Omar Bongo of Gabon died this week after nearly 42 years in power - who inherits his title as Africa's longest-serving leader? The BBC's Peter Lewenstein has compiled a list - in reverse order, by length of continuous time in office - of the 10 African heads of state who have stood the test of time.

The Swaziland High Commission in South Africa met democracy campaigners yesterday following months of protests in Johannesburg.

A scheduled visit to Old Bulawayo by King Mswati III was cancelled at the last minute yesterday after the government reportedly discovered that the cultural village was in aA dilapidated state.

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe - African states must work together so that the global economic crisis does not crush them, says a trade bloc.

President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, has met with Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, state radio reported Sunday.

Leading Swazi human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko has been arrested on charges of sedition and subversive activities, a fellow attorney told AFP on Thursday.

JOHANNESBURG, 3 June 2009 - Swaziland's most prominent human rights lawyer, Thulani Maseko, was arrested at his home on 3 June and charged with sedition, Muzi Masuku, of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, told IRIN.

KING Mswati III of Swaziland will jet into the country this afternoon for a three-day State visit that will end with him attending the 13th Summit of Comesa Heads of State and Government in the resort town of Victoria Falls.

A Swaziland politician who suggested HIV-positive people should have their HIV status branded on their buttocks apologised Thursday for his remarks - saying he now realised they were "really bad."Swazi parliamentarian Timothy Myeni sparked outrage last week when he proposed that Swazis all be tested for HIV and that their status be branded on their ...

A new battle plan for fighting HIV/Aids is needed in sub-Saharan Africa, the world's hardest-hit region, where most people with the possible deadly syndrome are unaware of their condition, experts said on Tuesday.

A Swaziland parliamentarian has apologized after calling for HIV-positive people to be branded on the buttocks to stop the spread of the virus ravaging the country.

SWAZI residents were asked overnight to debate a politician's call for HIV positive citizens to be branded on the buttocks, which has sparked an uproar in the small mountain kingdom.