Pro-democracy activists in Eswatini, the southern African country previously known as Swaziland

ignored calls for reforms that would move Eswatini, known as Swaziland until 2018, towards

trips from Alice in the Eastern Cape to Swaziland where she and her three siblings attended school

REUTERS/ Eduardo Munoz/ File Photo “ I can hear gunshots and smell teargas.... Some banks said they had shut until the unrest--which started on the weekend and turned violent overnight--subsides. Government spokesperson Sabelo Dlamini said schools and bus stations had been ordered closed.... Reuters saw school children hurrying home on the outskirts of the capital. Campaigners say the king has consistently evaded calls for meaningful reforms that would nudge eSwatini, which changed its name fr

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JOHANNESBURG( Reuters)-Envoys from Southern African countries are expected to travel to Eswatini this week, South Africa said on Thursday, after protests against the kingdom's absolute monarch flared up again. Anger against King Mswati III has been building for years.... " The envoys are expected to travel to the Kingdom this week." In protests in Eswatini schools Pro-democracy protests flare up in Eswatini last week students chanted" Mswati must fall" and" Release our MPs," a reference to two

TAIPEI, Aug 25( Reuters)-Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will visit Eswatini, the island's last African ally, early next month, the government said on Friday, looking to shore up ties at a time China is whittling away at the small number of countries still sticking by Taipei. Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory with no right to state-to-state relations, now has formal ties with only 13 countries, almost all small, less developed nations in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Pacific,

That year was the first time the traditional Queen's Christmas Broadcast was filmed outside of Buckingham or Windsor.... ” To which the Queen, amused, replied: “ My palace is quite large.... It has very long corridors to walk down in....

Richard E Grant has said he was left “ confounded ” after being stuck in a quarantine hotel charging more than twice as much as a similar alternative nearby. The Withnail and I actor said he had been visiting his 90-year-old mother in southern Africa when he was caught out by the change in travel restrictions. Speaking in a video on Twitter, Grant said: “ I went to southern Africa to visit my 90-year-old mother and got caught by the red region Covid restrictions.“ It took over a week and many ca

The king of a North African country is thought to be one of continent's richest leaders, with three stunning palaces. King Mohammed VI ascended to the Moroccan throne in 1999 following the death of his father Hassan II, inheriting vast wealth in the process. Morocco has several royal residences, of which Dar El-Makhzen, the king's Royal Palace in Fez, is perhaps the most famous. Within it are several private structures, patios, and gardens, but its inner workings are shielded from public view by